Alexa is trash and its entire implementation is trash. I’ve tried it with a smart home and it’s a nightmare.
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AA5B@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Amazon is losing money on basic voice assistant, but maybe if they make it more expensive , it will become profitable ?
Fez@lemmy.world 11 months ago
ripcord@kbin.social 11 months ago
It's...okay. What is garbage is that after billions of dollars spent, it has barely improved in the last 5 years. In some cases gotten worse.
And don't get me started on Siri.
Fez@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I switched from Android to iPhone a few years ago. I still miss Google Assistant so much. 😬
ripcord@kbin.social 11 months ago
The part that kills me is that Siri was (effectively) first. They had probably 2 years' lead on everyone else. Somehow they squandered that - pretty quickly - fell behind, and in some ways got WORSE. And it's been 12 years.
WYLD_STALLYNS@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I mean, that’s a little like asking, “How many swift kicks to my nuts before it makes me a billionaire?”
Because it’s one of those cost evaluation situations where they thought it was a shot in the dark at first, but by now it’s clearly a loss. So, the whole thing feels a little like, The Producer’s, something isn’t smelling right for any outsiders.