Business Insider: Amazon is gutting its voice-assistant Alexa
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Business Insider: Amazon is gutting its voice-assistant Alexa
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#3I for one just don't like stuff I have the feeling I can't control. With those intelligent loudspeaker and microphone devices I have always the feeling I need to cut the power supply to switch it really of.
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#4If anything, it makes me hopeful a surveillance device wasn’t able to get traction with most folks.
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#5I’m actually considering getting rid of my devices. I just want to play a song, not be constantly pestered about Amazon Music Unlimited and other crap.
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#6This makes sense based on my experiences with Alexa.
Starting in the last two years it has increasingly, and aggressively, started “advertising” skills and products following a voice request. So much so that I began looking into alternative voice engines.
Now I know why it was ramping up so quickly.
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#7This makes sense based on my experiences with Alexa. Starting in the last two years it has increasingly, and aggressively, started “advertising” skills and products following a voice request. So much so that I began looking into alternative voice engines. Now I know why it was ramping up so quickly.
What I want from Alexa:
“Alexa, do this” Done.
What I get from Alexa:
“Hi there, let’s have a conversation where I pester you about products and ask questions about other things I can do, etc.”
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#8I for one just don't like stuff I have the feeling I can't control. With those intelligent loudspeaker and microphone devices I have always the feeling I need to cut the power supply to switch it really of.
I do this even with my Chromecast. It's behind a remote controlled power plug that I turn on only when I'm about to watch something.
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#9Just a reminder for people that are looking for open source alternative that there is the Mark II that Mycroft is developing for years:
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#10Meta and Amazon missed out on smartphones as a platform but both succeeded in other areas (VR headsets and Alexa). I guess it's apparent now that they both overpaid to get there.
I use my Google Nest hub to watch YouTube which shows me ads. I think Amazon should've doubled down on the Echo Show and video content delivery (they do own twitch after all). The real money for platforms like Alexa/echo is content delivery, associated ad revenue, and replacing your telephone -- not as a medium to buy more shit on Amazon. And I think all of this could've been achieved with a 10000+ person division.