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Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by mattmaroon on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @06:35PM (#41062943)
Or, and I know this is a radical idea, but I think it could work, sell the hardware for more than it costs to make.

I’m pretty happy with having a speaker in one of my room that can play whatever I want, all at the same time, and some basic assistant functionality. If they cost twice as much, I would still buy them.

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Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by Barrin92 on Thursday July 25, 2024 @12:07AM (#41064616)
>sell the hardware for more than it costs to make.

That probably won't work because, at least according to Wikipedia, at some point 10k (!) people worked on Alexa. I'd start at the other end, maybe don't hire an entire Death Star worth of people to develop a voice assistant. That'd probably have saved a few billion here and there.

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Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by mattmaroon on Thursday July 25, 2024 @06:40AM (#41066980)
Well I mean going forward of course. Have to ignore the sunk cost.

But yeah they clearly spun their wheels on the software side.

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Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by marcosdumay on Thursday July 25, 2024 @12:16PM (#41070401)
How can one even organize 10k people adding stuff to the same product?
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