Alexa big seller for 2017
As I pretty much figured, amazon's so called "smart speaker" called Alexa and their smaller Echo line is said to have sold tens of millions over the holiday season ... to the point that it's sold out and won't be available until early January.Voice control of a "virtual assistant" continues to give me the heebie jeebies in my visions of eavesdropping and monitoring of privacy concerns in the context of simply being present and turned on in the home.
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This echo line intrigues me in a similar vein to it's "bigger big brother" named Alexa — mostly for the "things to come" as my interpretation of big brother is now in widespread use in the "tens of millions" of homes ...
I sincerely hope that marketing is the worse of the intrusions possible by such devices and likewise, I keep wondering where the caution of these "tens of millions" of owners resides.
We'll have to see how things develop but I foresee some privicy issues sooner or later of more or less significance to the consumer.
I don't even allow the voice control to operate on my roku remote. Thats why we have soldering irons, micro diagnonal cutters, and superglue.