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Echo = hub, too expensive and large to buy 10 for every room in the house, used for receiving, processing, routing info from spokes and cloud
Echo dot = spoke, microphone and AI functionality at a lower price point, distributes connectivity network throughout the entire house so that you don't have to walk from your kitchen to your living room to order new paper towels from Amazon
Only for US customers... "Requirements * A U.S. Amazon account * A U.S. shipping address (50 United States and the District of Columbia only) * An annual Amazon Prime membership or 30-day Amazon Prime free trial * A payment method issued by a U.S. bank with a U.S. billing address in your 1-Click settings * A device with access to the Alexa Voice Service (such as Amazon Echo)"
Googleglass problem. The interface is me yelling publicly. So not super sure that is going to be adopted well.
That being said, they announce partnerships with more and more services every month. Things are looking up.
Looking at screens to get key information distracts me from my surroundings and seems archaic.
My wife is a sound designer who has opened my eyes to the importance of sounds both in film and in the world. It's not that I was unaware of sounds, but I didn't realize how important they are to centering me in this world and the made up worlds of films and games. Try watching a scary movie with the sound turned off, it turns into a comedy.
I think its unexplored territory that has huge potential to impact the way we interact with the real world, even more so then Glass or Hololens.
When I listen to music as I walk down the street I change, my mood, my posture and the way I look at the world. The music augments the reality around me in a way that visual UX never can because it's a lens between my eyes and the world.
Just ordered a Dot -- what is the Tap? They added that to the page, too, but no info. Is it just the next gen Echo? http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/3/11148776/amazon-echo-tap-sp... Ahh -- the Tap is a portable device with wifi speaker. (Probably wouldn't call an audio monitoring box the "tap"
I'm not entirely clear on the difference between the regular Echo and the Echo Dot. It appears you have to have an original Echo in order to purchase a Dot. Is this simply an extension that proxies all of the requests back to the original Echo?
Where do you get that? As far as I can tell, this looks like an Echo with minimal speakers.
[Edit: Ah. It's only available through voice shopping on either an Echo or Fire TV--though that would seem to be a marketing gimmick as opposed to a technical restriction]
Just ordered a Dot -- what is the Tap? They added that to the page, too, but no info. Is it just the next gen Echo? http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/3/11148776/amazon-echo-tap-sp... Ahh -- the Tap is a portable device with wifi speaker. (Probably wouldn't call an audio monitoring box the "tap"
Why don't Amazon have an Alexa iOS/Android app?
I'm not entirely clear on the difference between the regular Echo and the Echo Dot. It appears you have to have an original Echo in order to purchase a Dot. Is this simply an extension that proxies all of the requests back to the original Echo?
It's the Echo using your own speaker (it has a tiny one still). The "ordering through your existing FireTV/Echo" is just a stupid marketing ploy. As far as we know right not it does not talk to other Echo's on your network (no proxying/grid/mesh/etc).