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Re:Amazon’s plan for Alexa by paulcole on Sunday November 10, 2019 @09:43PM (#21501723)
Amazon patented this idea years ago

https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/18/amazon-pre-ships/

Re:Amazon’s plan for Alexa by dguo on Sunday November 10, 2019 @10:08PM (#21501814)
Ha! Of course they did. Thanks for the link.