If they're losing money at that rate, it really tempts me to order one! Onto a fresh Amazon account that'll never be used, needless to say. Also needless to say that I'll never order one. But this puts as big a smile on my face as Kamala causing so many problems for the Republicans.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/alexa-had-no-profit-timeline-cost-amazon-25-billion-in-4-years/
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/alexa-had-no-profit-timeline-cost-amazon-25-billion-in-4-years/
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Date: 2024-07-24 05:23 pm (UTC)Needless to say, most of the people at my (tech industry) office do not have them either. ;)
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Date: 2024-07-24 06:30 pm (UTC)One of my good friends, whom I've worked with twice, surprised me by having one. And he has (or had, dunno currently) a security clearance! One night his wife woke him and said she heard voices in the basement! So Phil crept downstairs, he also heard a voice, and it was the damn whatever it was saying 'Cannot connect to internet' over and over. There had been a power outage and it needed to be reset or reinitialized or something. While I wouldn't mind an Apple HomePod speaker as Apple takes privacy pretty seriously, I'm in no hurry to buy one.