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Re:Amazon Echo by dave1619 on Thursday November 06, 2014 @02:22PM (#8569100)
I definitely agree. I'd use it mostly for a bluetooth music streaming speaker. And for $99 (since I'm a prime member) it's a good price. All the other features are extra and I don't know which ones I'd end up actually using on a regular basis. But it would be cool to try out.
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Re:Amazon Echo by taternuts on Thursday November 06, 2014 @02:38PM (#8569222)
This was my train of thought as well, but it ended in me researching mini bluetooth speakers and buying one of those instead. The features enabled by Echo are kind of cool and all, but I don't think I'd use them at all and the security stuff is obviously enough of a concern to make me think twice. It wonder why they didn't try to add a wifi kill-switch kind of thing for the paranoid who would just use it for a blue-tooth speaker
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Re:Amazon Echo by lurkingperson on Thursday November 06, 2014 @02:47PM (#8569294)
there's a button on top to turn the listening feature off
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Re:Amazon Echo by pbhjpbhj on Thursday November 06, 2014 @04:22PM (#8569864)
Which actually activates the stream-to-NSA feature /paranoia.
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