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Re: Amazon Echo Show

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Post by dexterdog »

umeshunni wrote: post #398
sah2ed wrote: post #397

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You are forgetting an important demographic of many households who do not yet have personal phones but are perfectly capable of communicating verbally: small children. Amazon is betting on these children growing up with an Echo in the home which can be a nice way to catch up with your kids' activities while still at work or on your way home. Child: "Alexa, record a message for mom." Alexa: "Recording message." Child:…

Also, old people and seniors who have trouble using small cellphones. Ever tried using FaceTime or Skype with poor vision/ dexterity?

So the solution is a device that has a screen on it that is barely bigger then my phone's?

Re: Amazon Echo Show

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Post by swalsh »

mikeash wrote: post #90
eclipxe wrote: post #21

People are missing this: "With the Alexa App, conversations and contacts go where you go. When you’re away from home, use the app to make a quick call or send a message to your family’s Echo. Alexa calling and messaging is free—to get started download the Alexa App." Alexa is now in the messaging and communication game. https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/09/amazon-enables-free-calls-...

Are we ever going to see unity between these services, or are we doomed to have little walled-off fiefdoms forever? A phone number works anywhere in the world, to anywhere in the world, with anyone who has a phone. All e-mail providers work with each other. I don't care who you're with, and I wouldn't even have to know except it's usually part of the address. SMS works no matter which provider we both have. It feels…

I'm working for a startup that is trying to solve that problem :D

Re: Amazon Echo Show

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Post by Coding_Cat »

baudehlo wrote: post #422
Coding_Cat wrote: post #241

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I run my own email, on a vps no less, and the only blocklist that has given me trouble is Symantec's (and a bit of Googling at the time showed it had a high false-positive rate). Google, Hotmail, etc, all work just fine. Just make sure to set up DMARC (DKIM+SPF) and TLS by default.

That's a shame since I wrote the RFC/BCP on DNS blocklists while at Symantec.

Haha, well this is awkward..

It was a while ago, if I recall correctly the block seemed to be ip based (it reported my ip not domain-name). I host with vpsdime, while it is a vps and thus to be expected I don't seem to be on any other lists.

DMARC, PTR, no open-relay, encryption, etc., all set up on my end. The email I was trying to reach was in fact an (important to me) gov't adress. Ended up using my old gmail for that instead.

Re: Amazon Echo Show

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Post by miranda_rights »

sib wrote: post #440
miranda_rights wrote: post #429

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I'm kind of confused as to why the Look and Show were developed/released in parallel. They're at similar price points and it looks like the Show could do anything that the Look could do, so why have them as separate projects?

Just a few thoughts: Presumably, people are less likely to spend as much time in their closets as in a kitchen or office, so they probably wouldn't use the full suite of Show capabilities there as much. The scale of the Show is probably too large to look good on a small dressing table or side table; whereas space may be at less of a premium in the kitchen, living room, or office. The Look is a much prettier / cleaner…

Those are really good points -- the design aspects occurred to me as well but not enough to see the difference.

That's also really cool about team independence at Amazon. It seems like it'd be a good way to combat people feeling lost in a big company. Thanks for writing up your thoughts!

Re: Amazon Echo Show

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jerf wrote: post #128
nicky0 wrote: post #103

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Locate remote, Turn on TV, select EXT3 input....

Modern HDMI-based systems can do this in one stroke. And by "modern" I mean that pushing my PS3 (yes, 3, not 4) button to start it up starts up my TV, and would start up my audio system were it not too old for that. (Though it occurs to me now to check whether it might do that if I routed HDMI in to it; for historical reasons I route optical audio to it which I believe lacks the channel for this.) Shutting things bac…

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