Conrad Hackett Nov 22, 2022
Yikes! Amazon is on track to lose $10 billion this year on its hardware division, including Alexa devices. Most devices are sold at cost and plans to monetize them have failed in "a colossal failure of imagination."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/amazon-alexa-is-a-colossal-failure-on-pace-to-lose-10-billion-this-year/
Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year

Layoffs reportedly hit the Alexa team hard as the company’s biggest money loser.

Ars Technica
Show threadMike BelmoreNov 22, 2022
@conradhackett
"You know what people really want? What people really want is to be able to order toilet paper by talking to their TV." ~ some guy at Amazon
Show threadRoxysteve

@Happy_Belmore @conradhackett What peoplr seem to want is Star Trek technology - no downside talk-into-the-air-and-get-an-intelligent-response.

And of course, they want it for free. We live in an Internet 2.0 world, whatever that ever meant.

What they get is an always-on audio feed from their home to who-knows-where. I’m struggling to understand the wisdom of connecting one of these things to a power source and letting it use one’s network.
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Nov 22, 2022 at 4:26pmWeb