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Re:Voice assistants failed because they serve their makers m... by faeriechangling on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @10:03PM (#33994611)
You’re presuming too much competence on the part of Amazon. They’re not subsidizing those devices to fulfill a long term dastardly scheme where they make their money back and more.

They just screwed up lol and customers who took advantage won out.

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Re:Voice assistants failed because they serve their makers m... by jqpabc123 on Thursday December 15, 2022 @08:23AM (#33999120)
The question is --- are they still winners if the Alexa backend is suddenly shutdown?

These devices just collect audio data and send it to Amazon for processing. Without the backend service, they are useless.

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