I bought the original Echo back when it first came out.
It was a neat internet radio device and Bluetooth speaker but outside of making it play the radio I never really used the voice functionality much.
I remember one of the places where I buy groceries from offering an incentive if you ordered your shopping via the Alexa skill, it was so painful to use that I added everything to my basket using the website and then just added 1 unambiguous item using the skill and checked out. They gave me the discount/incentive but I never used it again.
I moved house but never plugged it back in and don't really miss it.
I also remember going to AWS re:invent in 2016 and they gave every attendee an echo dot, with a lot of fanfare to encourage Devs to make skills. I tried to make one but it was so convoluted, I gave up in the end and just gave the Dot to my parents. It broke after about a year, they never replaced it either
It was a neat internet radio device and Bluetooth speaker but outside of making it play the radio I never really used the voice functionality much.
I remember one of the places where I buy groceries from offering an incentive if you ordered your shopping via the Alexa skill, it was so painful to use that I added everything to my basket using the website and then just added 1 unambiguous item using the skill and checked out. They gave me the discount/incentive but I never used it again.
I moved house but never plugged it back in and don't really miss it.
I also remember going to AWS re:invent in 2016 and they gave every attendee an echo dot, with a lot of fanfare to encourage Devs to make skills. I tried to make one but it was so convoluted, I gave up in the end and just gave the Dot to my parents. It broke after about a year, they never replaced it either