The Dot 4 speaker is a decent speaker. The voice recognition is also pretty impressive for a device that small. So, I disagree it's shit tech. But if it was my job to make money from it I would be sweating bullets.

We use ours everyday in nearly every room, but they all are technically collecting dust as well. So may not be the best measure in this instance.

> Have you ever actually used one?

Many.

I have a love hate relationship. Saves me time to turn off my space heater, or the living room TV when my kids are in trouble and keep turning on while grounded, or lights, etc, or google some mundane fact my wife and I are arguing about, sometimes getting a laugh when she TOTALLY gets the wrong thing in a funny way.

I curse her out more than anything but at this point she's almost a family member, I do wish they'd hurry up w/ a new generation using GPT3+dalle etc to create some much better ux.

I'd probably use a google home instead if I'd gotten that first, I'm not tied to the alexa brand, and hate Amazon as a whole as being a gluttonous monstrosity of industry, but I'm a big believer in global warming but still eat meat... Sometimes you just do what's convenient, I guess.

At least the google one is the best alarm clock and timer ever made. That alone justifies its existence.