Would you have Alexa in your home?

I wouldn't - I'm sick of hearing the name Alexa without saying it too! It's way down at the bottom of my 'Must-have' list!

 

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Sorry, that was a brain-fart - we all have them sometimes?

 

Alexa just uses Amazon right?
It's just pointless really unless you're bed bound.

 

It's about as useful as @alexa since you don't really need something that only uses one shop to do your shopping; like a monopoly of the device, it is anti free market.
Alexa only uses one shop/Amazon.

 

I prefer old-school internet search by typing words using keyboard or touch panel.
Speech recognition is not flexible enough. Not everything can be spoken, e.g. math expressions.

 

I just don't see the point of Alexa only using Amazon.
So no, I wouldn't have an Alexa in my home.

 

I saw a free Alexa as a promotion to some Virgin Media TiVO Wifi thing and wondered what the point was.
I'd prefer an Apple X phone anyday.

 

Only for shopping. For music, you can have different choices. For example, you can use Pandora for music with Alexa (despite Amazon having it's own music services).

 

You can set "Computer," "Echo," or "Amazon" instead of "Alexa" to activate it.

 

I like Siri much better.

I use her on almost a daily basis and haven't really ever had any problems other than never learning how to use a map in real life.

lol

 

Oh right - thanks. It's still bottom of my Must-have list though!

 

Nope. I use the 'ok google' to play music on my phone, but mostly hate using voice activated anything.

 

Nope, don't need no Alexa.

 

Would I pay for a device that puts me under surveillance from the people I bought it from? No.

Cell phones are bad enough, but a device that is always listening and recording you? Uh, no.

 

You should see the laughs my "smart phone" draws. It's an LG VX9900 ... browser & streaming and apps are limited, but privacy compensates. Tracking can be turned off too.

 

I have several models, one in every room although I've changed the "wake up word" to a mix of computer, Echo and, still, Alexa.

 

Agreed, but I'm not a paranoid nitwit who is worried that the NSA is tracking me. In fact, if I'm ever robbed or accidentally run my car off a cliff, I'd like people to know where my phone can be found.

 

I've used both, but have been a Pandora member for years. Still getting used to Amazon's music choices.

 

Some people don't know the devices can be modified and monitored (spied on) for commercial purposes by major corporations.

 

The tracker on my phone can be turned on and off at will. You should familiarize yourself with "stingrays" and how far behind privacy laws, and search and seizure provisions are -vs- "incidental collection" practices. I'm not involuntarily consenting to unregulated tracking by big brother or big retail either.

 

I hope that works for you. There are a bunch of phones that still track you even turned off with the chip removed.

 

I've been told mines on of the best that still compatible, and reasonably capable. I suspect the compatibility issues will FORCE me to purchase a phone pre-tapped by big brother though.

 

Yeah it has me seriously considering getting a flip phone, although those have probably been compromised by now.

We basically walk around with a camera and a listening device that anyone can hack into and spy on us, and we pay for the "privilege".

It's almost as smart as what the DNA companies are doing.

 

Ummmm....still not worried. Most of the time they'll only hear CNN news, Walking Dead and comedies.