Amazon Echo Released

Re:Amazon Echo Released by coldpie on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @11:27AM (#9765268)

> You call it Alexa, not Echo. The box says Echo, but you will never interact with it as such. Can you imagine Steve Jobs saying: "here's our big feature for iOS 5, it's called Siri, but you'll interact with it by calling it Yoko"?

You're not wrong, but this might have been intentional. I've heard complaints from people with Xbox Ones where the Xbox will suddenly decide to turn on because the owner was having a conversation with a friend and mentioned the word "Xbox." By calling the product Echo, you can have a conversation about the Echo without triggering the activation word. You're almost never going to say "Alexa" without intending to turn on the Echo.

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Re:Amazon Echo Released by aaronbrethorst on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @11:33AM (#9765321)

But I never refer to the product as Echo. I refer to it as Alexa, because no one who comes to my house knows what an Echo is. So, when I refer to it in conversation, I call it "the A-word" (not kidding)

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Re:Amazon Echo Released by scott_s on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @11:41AM (#9765393)

I think this is the key difference between it and the iPhone: Siri is one of the ways that people interact with an iPhone, not the only. In fact, Siri is probably a minority means to use an iPhone. (I know it is not for me.)

But Alexa is the way people will interact with Echo, after setting it up. So it makes less sense to keep the two ideas separate.

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