The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on Amazon this holiday season

Re:The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on Amazon this ... by ehsankia on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @03:43PM (#16017857)

1. It's far more conversational. It understands vague questions far better, and the speech understanding also works far better for people with deep accents.

2. It has great integration with other Google services if you're already a heavy Google user (maps, mail, calendar, Fi/GV, hopefully Keep soon...)

3. It has fantastic uses with chromecast (netflix, youtube, pause, rewind, volume, etc).

Obviously, #2 and #3 will vary heavily for people; you can probably get most of #3 if you get a Fire stick. It really depends if you're already a Google/Android/Chromecast user or not.

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Re:The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on Amazon this ... by corobo on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @05:22PM (#16018556)

I think the question was more "why invite Google into your home before Amazon" - as in the companies, not the devices

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Re:The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on Amazon this ... by jacksmith21006 on Saturday December 30, 2017 @02:19PM (#16036910)

For me I am agrevated with Amazon behavior and the Google home is just a lot better than the Echo.

Amazon removing the twitch app from the Roku after purrchasing Twitch is just wrong. Also Amazon banning any company from able to sell the Google home or Chromecast in their marketplace is also a problem.

Amazon does not need to do this anti competitive BS.

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