Alexa users who are Amazon Prime members are reportedly being automatically upgraded to Alexa Plus. Users who have been upgraded can revert to the old Alexa by saying, “Alexa, exit Alexa Plus.” One user claims that they were “flooded with ads” after downgrading back to Alexa.
I have the original Echo, and it still works. For some reason I had it running and it had an alert recently. So I asked what it was, and Alexa promoted being able to upgrade and told me how it’s so much better and stuff. And told me I just had to give it the go to upgrade.
So I did. And then AND THEN it told me my device is too old.
Fucking POS. I unplugged it again. I use it as a stand for my HomePod Mini.
Veedem@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
They probably need to show investors that the money spent developing it is worth it. “We’ve added X amount of users this quarter alone!”
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours ago
It worked for Microsoft. The month after they started to force install Teams in windows they published user numbers showing how teams had sprinted ahead of Slack by that metric, and the tech press mostly ate it up.
null@piefed.nullspace.lol 5 hours ago
Maybe, but how do they respond to the followup “Nice! How?”
PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 4 hours ago
That’s probably not a question that’ll get asked, unfortunately. What will get asked is why those numbers dropped off abruptly the next quarter.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
Not usually. These people tend to be really stupid. There’s a reason why businesses degrees are made fun of so much.