Amazon Echo Begins Shipping

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Thought I'd start a thread here to see if anyone has pulled the trigger. Mine is coming next week according to Prime estimates! What are everyone's thoughts on it?

lixardz• 12 years ago

Seriously? Why would you bother with a dog turd. If you want to listen to music literally any other speaker is better.. if you want to use it for idk what even cause it's just a novelty. Waste of time and money.

thebiglebrewski• 12 years ago

Haha wow, that's a pretty negative comment there. Personally, I'm trying to remove the internet from the room I sleep in except the bare necessities. This is one way of moving towards that goal - when I go to get dressed in the morning, what's the forecast for today? Having a device that answers that question without a screen and without having to hookup and Arduino or old android phone or something is pretty cool to me.

czink• 12 years ago

I think it has the potential to be really useful for purchasing things, which is certainly what Amazon excels at.

The only obstacle they'll need to overcome when they introduce voice purchasing is that I don't want to listen to a list of prices and descriptions after asking it for toothpaste. I want it to figure out that, no I don't want a case of 24 toothpaste rolls, just one will be fine. It should be as simple as "Alexa, I need more Crest toothpaste." and it's on its way.

Amazon Echo Begins Shipping

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