> Most people just don't use their Alexa beyond "Play music" or "What's the weather today". That's because voice assistants are and have always been terrible,

> Most people just don't use their Alexa beyond "Play music" or "What's the weather today". That's because voice assistants are and have always been terrible, and could only play music, tell you the weather, set an alarm, and set a timer with any advantage over any other input method. People who liked using them for these things liked them. If you didn't need them for these things, there was no good reason to put a direct open line to Amazon, Google, or Apple in your house just to read you what wikipedia says about something. People will love real assistants to death, especially local ones that learn from their personal habits. During the wave of voice assistants, they were promised that futuristic secretary through fraudulent advertising and endless industry marketing, and instead they got talking clock radios connected to advertising companies.