I assumed you were imply a scale of convenience to intrusiveness. But I feel more comfortable using a dot as an alarm clock/info machine than I do using facebook though I do use both. Now, when I ask for the weather and the Dot responds and says “you will want NPR news update next” and starts to play it, I will unplug…

Excluding hacking, these devices are not sending all of the sound they “hear” back to corporate servers - imagine the volume of storage needed to store all of that. It is obvious from monitoring the network traffic to these devices that they are listening for their “wake up word” (e.g. “Alexa” or “Hey Siri”) before…

Remember when the Internet was evolving in the 90s and everyone said you should never give a website your real information let alone your real payment information? I don’t think Bezos is worth $100 billion because we are giving Amazon fake addresses and credit cards every time we make a purchase.

I have one in my garage, and a lot of tools/lighting in the bay are smart switched so i can turn things on and off. Lower flood lights to light up the bottom of the car? “alexa low floods on”. Need air compressor? “Alexa air compressor on”, to create reminders “Alexa remind me to pay someone else to replace a fiat 500…