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Honestly I think the only reason you guys shipped as many units as you did was blocking other voice assistants from interacting with Audible. I've had an Alexa/
by krisroadruck 2y ago
Honestly I think the only reason you guys shipped as many units as you did was blocking other voice assistants from interacting with Audible. I've had an Alexa/Echo since the early beta and it has literally always been worse than other options like google home. It's gotten progressively worse over time as well. Not just comparatively but vs it's own experience several years ago.
- nextworddev 2y agoYep, can confirm that it was better in 2017 than 2021. Mainly because when the org chart grows, more "rules" are added to the rules engine, where each rule is managed by another service... which all adds to end to end user perceived latency, etc... that's why rule engines don't work.
- ratg13 2y agoI have a first gen echo and generally it has gotten better over time. In the early years I couldn’t control the Phillips hue lights in my home, and then one year suddenly I could thanks to updates. Most companies would have abandoned hardware this old.
- nextworddev 2y agohome automation is what makes the product stick in many cases
- lolinder 2y agoThe hardware is just a microphone, a speaker, a tiny computer, and a WiFi chip. It's easy to keep providing updates for old hardware when all the brains live in the cloud.