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Re:Amazon Echo Flex: Microphone mute button appears to be re... by ovi256 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @06:16AM (#25745334)
Engineers, with contracts or not, have about 2200-2500 hours to spend per year. Those hours can presumably be allocated to this task (that doesn't add any new capability) or to a task that adds capabilities (which will bring in new revenue).
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Re:Amazon Echo Flex: Microphone mute button appears to be re... by stdbrouw on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @07:52AM (#25746147)
Clearly it does add a new capability: it gives people an additional assurance that the mic is muted in a tamper-proof way whenever the switch is toggled, which is something that according to the article many are currently wary of.
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Re:Amazon Echo Flex: Microphone mute button appears to be re... by bald42 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @07:41AM (#25746049)
2200-2500h? Where did you pull that number from? That's like 6 days per week with no vacation.
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