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Re:TV anchor says live on-air ‘Alexa, order me a dollhouse’ by syshum on Saturday January 07, 2017 @11:33AM (#13344910)
This is one of the reason I have never turned on "One Click Ordering" in Amazon either.

I WANT the check out process, I WANT to verify my address, payment method, I want to confirm my order qty, shipping costs, and other items.

I am baffled by this trend to simply speak into the air and have a computer order anything with out limit based on what the computer thinks I said.

Re:TV anchor says live on-air ‘Alexa, order me a dollhouse’ by ghaff on Saturday January 07, 2017 @02:36PM (#13346102)
The Dash buttons are the same ting. I'm willing to stipulate that there could exist some item that I order regularly enough to want a dedicated button (but don't want a subscription, which would probably give me a discount) and that Amazon reliably has a good price on it. But I certainly don't have anything that falls in that category.
Re:TV anchor says live on-air ‘Alexa, order me a dollhouse’ by kennethcwilbur on Saturday January 07, 2017 @12:17PM (#13345204)
Re:TV anchor says live on-air ‘Alexa, order me a dollhouse’ by antisthenes on Saturday January 07, 2017 @09:37PM (#13347936)
Interesting how polarized Japan is.

It has the most users at level 3 proficiency, but almost twice the amount of people who aren't able to use computers at all, compared to, say, USA.

Re:TV anchor says live on-air ‘Alexa, order me a dollhouse’ by xbmcuser on Saturday January 07, 2017 @10:28PM (#13348074)
Japan have a larger percentage of older people over 30% are aged 60+ and over 12% are aged 75+ one of the major reasons
Re:TV anchor says live on-air ‘Alexa, order me a dollhouse’ by ClassyJacket on Saturday January 07, 2017 @01:37PM (#13345740)
I wish you could do that with eBay, but sadly it seems to be, log out manually every time, or have absolutely no confirmation to order things. Which should be illegal.