I'm not sure if I'll use it other than for the first day as a novelty. Will give it a go through and feed back my findings here. I've previously fitted a nest thermostat and some Philips hue lights so will give it a go as a wireless controller. Worse case scenario it will be another Bluetooth speaker for me for £99.I have been tempted by it actually, I have prime so it's £50 cheaper. Not so sure I'd use it though.
EDIT: It is from Mr Robot 2.0, found this and it made me chuckle https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonecho/comments/4ubwvv/mr_robot_made_my_echo_say_random_stuff/
It is basically just a Bluetooth speaker with Alexa (Amazon's Siri/Cortana) built in but it works well. For £99 preordered it wasn't bad value but I think at the current £149 I'd probably pass.
Call me paranoid but I don't like the idea of multiple arrays of always listening microphones beaming information to Amazon's servers 24/7, something it has to do as the voice recognition can't be done locally due to not being powerful enough. At least with Siri you have to activate it before it listens, this is a whole other ball game. Does nobody remember the issue with certain smart TVs uploading private conversations from peoples living rooms to servers, well outside of the scope of what it should have been doing. Dodgy dodgy dodgy lol.
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