Amazon Introduces Amazon Echo

Ducman69 said:
They will sell a lot based on people's perceptions of how cool it is, and then perhaps hope of what it might one day become, but ultimately its going to die as a fad as expectations are let down.
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I dunno, most of my "non-techy" friends think this thing looks fucking stupid. They ask the same thing I do. What does it do better than my smartphone...therefore how does it justify it's price?
 
If the rumors of Cortana coming to Win10 and Xbox are true, this may get some good competition next year. Thing is with Cortana, you should be able to create triggers with the API to connect it to other things - home automation, weather stuff, audio, etc...
 
The video for this thing is one of the worst I've ever seen. I kept thinking it was a gag, but then there's this actual product. Which, in my opinion, is a horrible product that's going to fail. Who the hell would buy this thing? In the vid, it's in all these different rooms. Are you supposed to buy 10 of these, or just unplug and carry this around your house every time you change rooms? And why use this at all when our freaking phones do the same thing, and we actually do carry those with us?

Fire Phone and now Echo. What's up with Amazon lately?
 
Good point about the room limitation to boot.

The saving grace would have been if they had partnered with Nexia Home Intelligence and other manufacturers, so that say your home wireless cameras would have mic/speakers in them so you have range in each room, and you could then also audio control your thermostat, lights, locks, and cameras.

Or add functionality like make it a home server/router that backs up all your equipment on your home network, and can stream to various devices and what not.

But as it is, exactly, what can it do that your phone can't?

Slightly not safe for work, and swallow your milk so it doesn't spray out your nose before clicking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GijLoiVkmYI

:D
 
Am i the only one that thinks this thing is kinda cool? I could see a lot of the scenarios from the video happening in real life, and echo actually being helpful
 
If it used a voice print from Majel Barrett-Roddenberry I would buy it right now.
Or if it used Benders voice, talked back and gave me grief.
 
mercedes-benz said:
Am i the only one that thinks this thing is kinda cool? I could see a lot of the scenarios from the video happening in real life, and echo actually being helpful
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There was no scenario that couldn't have been handled identically with a smart phone.
 
this would be fucking awesome in a nursing home.
 
Disposed said:
There was no scenario that couldn't have been handled identically with a smart phone.
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The only advantage would be if those microphones were really crazy sensitive and accurate, and the speaker system provided high quality audio or something.

If that were the case, I could see it being worth maybe $50.
 
$99 for a crappy speaker and Uncle Amazon looking over my shoulder. Meh, no thanks ...
 
I think this is stupid as hell. I signed up anyway, worse case scenario it is an overpriced Bluetooth speaker and my kid can play with it.
 
Alexa, please download the top 4 movies from TPB, and copy to the living room HTPC.

I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you do that.
 
ocellaris said:
I think this is stupid as hell. I signed up anyway, worse case scenario it is an overpriced Bluetooth speaker and my kid can play with it.
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I think their long term goal is two things:
1) Music: Listen to your Amazon Music Library, Prime Music (they list it outright, they want you to buy more music from them, I'm sure as you're listening to anything it will also let you say "buy" and add it to your amazon music library)
2) That add to shopping list thing, its going to be the next "1-click ordering" to capture impulse shoppers. At first it will likely just be gathering information about what kind of things you add to your shopping list, then later it will be adding it to your recommendations on amazon.com or even your wish list. Eventually, it will probably automatically add items to your subscribe-and-save orders to ship out with your next subscription delivery.

I'm sure that's the real goal, and the other functionality they put in there is just a distraction so people think its not just about amazon trying to gather information on you and sell to you.
 
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