It's not surprising to me. Alexa was entirely botched IMO.
For example, I would ask Alexa "can my dog eat <X>". In the beginning it was not clear to me this was a third party skill. Then one day Alexa would respond with something like "nay, Dr. Wolf says ..." (I don't quite remember). I was surprised because who speaks like that? I then realized it was an Alexa Skill made by a third party developer. The developer later attempted to monetized this skill so you could only ask the question 3 times and after that it would bill you.
Alexa has a lot of other issues. Every room in the house has an Alexa Echo Show. But the screen real estate is entirely wasted with useless stuff. Very limited customization.
I'm in process of replacing my home automation with Lutron products. And the Alexa will soon be gone from my home. It seems like everything Amazon does is half-baked, but enough to get out the door. There is no polish at that company.
> And the Alexa Echo Shows in every room will soon become ewaste.
Please try to donate to a local hacker space, nephew, give away on craiglist, but this just makes me depressed every time. :-(
> It seems like everything Amazon does is half-baked, but enough to get out the door. There is no polish at that company.
Isn't that more and more becoming the norm? Google immediately comes to mind too, and the only exception is probably Apple, but at times even they throw shit on the market that just doesn't feel polished at all. It's just that more often than not they actually try to make it right then, instead of letting it linger...
"Thank you. I will consider donating. I did not mean to imply that I would throw them in the garbage. I meant more that I would take them to my city's electronics recycling drop-off.
Apple HomePods are pretty half-baked with how shitty Siri, they have a very niche set of things they do but even that's not reliable because Siri likes to misinterpret
They work reasonably well for today's weather and music - which is all I want them for. Not once have I gotten an ad from my HomePod which is in and of itself the killer feature.
For example, I would ask Alexa "can my dog eat <X>". In the beginning it was not clear to me this was a third party skill. Then one day Alexa would respond with something like "nay, Dr. Wolf says ..." (I don't quite remember). I was surprised because who speaks like that? I then realized it was an Alexa Skill made by a third party developer. The developer later attempted to monetized this skill so you could only ask the question 3 times and after that it would bill you.
Alexa has a lot of other issues. Every room in the house has an Alexa Echo Show. But the screen real estate is entirely wasted with useless stuff. Very limited customization.
I'm in process of replacing my home automation with Lutron products. And the Alexa will soon be gone from my home. It seems like everything Amazon does is half-baked, but enough to get out the door. There is no polish at that company.