Amazon's Alexa series of devices has COST the company $25 BILLION in less than 5 years?!

[thewayne]

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/

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[halfshellvenus]

The in-home SpyBot? Yeah, I won't be ordering one of those either. Or its cousins.

Needless to say, most of the people at my (tech industry) office do not have them either. ;)

[thewayne]

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.