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So more expensive than Homepod and Sonos speaker, similar if not identical features, from the one company that has shitty customer service? No thanks.
So more expensive than Homepod and Sonos speaker, similar if not identical features, from the one company that has shitty customer service? No thanks.
Does anyone really find these home assistants to be all that useful? Echo, home, etc. All of them really seem to be designed to get you to buy them and then to sell you more stuff, not to actually be useful. It barely works for even simple queries. The music integration doesn't work well with Spotify on the home, and can't even add reminders. The echo has to ask "am or pm" when I tell it to 'wake me up tomorrow at 8'…
The convenience and _naturalness_ of the interaction is just so cool!
Does anyone really find these home assistants to be all that useful? Echo, home, etc. All of them really seem to be designed to get you to buy them and then to sell you more stuff, not to actually be useful. It barely works for even simple queries. The music integration doesn't work well with Spotify on the home, and can't even add reminders. The echo has to ask "am or pm" when I tell it to 'wake me up tomorrow at 8'…
I don’t trust Google not to record every single thing I say and feed that into their advertising platform. For this reason I will probably wait and get a HomePod... Downvoters: I presume you have evidence that Google won’t use your interactions with Google Assistant to better advertise to you?
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Google has been very open about everything they know about you and has done a great job at allowing you to control it: https://myaccount.google.com/dashboard https://adssettings.google.com/ This is more than what any other company does. You can choose to trust another company. I choose to trust Google. (Disclaimer: I worked at Google several years ago, and my trust in the company has only increased after my time ther…
Wow, that’s awesome that I can turn off all the creepy features! They should put this button on the homepage ;-)
So more expensive than Homepod and Sonos speaker, similar if not identical features, from the one company that has shitty customer service? No thanks.
I'm a Sonos user and love it, but Sonos doesn't have any assistant capability at all, so saying "similar if not identical features" seems like quite the stretch.
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Well, do you have proof that Google/Apple/Nokia/etc. isn't already doing that with your phone? If you're going to be super distrustful of closed source stuff by companies with an interest in gathering user data and assume guilt before innocence is proven, that's fine. But you can't do it selectively!
The incentives for Apple to do this are relatively minimal and Google has a track record of hoovering up information on you to target advertising. Almost as if it’s their entire business...
Does anyone really find these home assistants to be all that useful? Echo, home, etc. All of them really seem to be designed to get you to buy them and then to sell you more stuff, not to actually be useful. It barely works for even simple queries. The music integration doesn't work well with Spotify on the home, and can't even add reminders. The echo has to ask "am or pm" when I tell it to 'wake me up tomorrow at 8'…
Doesn't this mean that you find it useful?
Does anyone really find these home assistants to be all that useful? Echo, home, etc. All of them really seem to be designed to get you to buy them and then to sell you more stuff, not to actually be useful. It barely works for even simple queries. The music integration doesn't work well with Spotify on the home, and can't even add reminders. The echo has to ask "am or pm" when I tell it to 'wake me up tomorrow at 8'…
My roommate finds it helps with loneliness - oftentimes she's home alone because of her work schedule as a flight attendant, and everyone else is busy at work, so she has no one to really talk to. She has found some happiness with talking to Alexa.