Re:Voice Is the Next Big Platform, and Alexa Will Own It
by semi-extrinsic on Monday December 19, 2016 @05:53PM
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Personally, I devote the upper 1/8th of my phone's homescreen to a widget that shows a weather graph (temp, rain/snow, wind) for the next 36 hours. The forecast updates every 2 hours.
But then again, we live a few hours north of the location where they filmed the Battle of Hoth. Asking anyone, let alone a machine, "what is the weather outside" gives you little information about the weather in six hours.
Re:Voice Is the Next Big Platform, and Alexa Will Own It
by ddebernardy on Monday December 19, 2016 @06:07PM
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Must be interesting to live that far north. FWIW further south people configure their phones likewise because the question of whether there will be rain is when rather than if - or at least during the rainier season(s).
Re:Voice Is the Next Big Platform, and Alexa Will Own It
by ivm on Monday December 19, 2016 @05:40PM
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Or you can buy a bit more advanced but disconnected from IoT botnet:
https://www.amazon.com/AcuRite-02027A1-Forecast-Temperature-...
Re:Voice Is the Next Big Platform, and Alexa Will Own It
by ThomPete on Monday December 19, 2016 @08:13PM
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Yes good point, my granddad had barometer etc.
There is something about the tangibility of information we use a lot. Instead of it being hidden behind login, app launch etc we just access it directly.
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