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Re:Amazon Echo Released by VLM on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @12:55PM (#9765906)
"my girlfriend"

Could you or someone else chime in with an explanation of how this works? Specifically I see all the promotional material or astroturfing or whatever about how awesome it is for families, and I also see how it links to numerous single individual person services (google calendar, various music services, audible, etc) but I can't figure out how (or if) it handles the 1:n mapping. If I ask it whats on my calendar I really don't want to hear by son's assignment notebook from school, or even something as simple as asking about traffic, my wife and I do not work in the same location, if my wife and I and my son have three separate audible accounts...

As a side issue I have no idea why its so expensive. The hardware looks like my old roku plus a speaker but the cost is that times more than three? I mean on the assumption it would wedge me into the amazon ecosystem, as a bazillion year customer and a prime subscriber, I'd expect it to be free. "Here its free and works with audible now go buy even MORE audible books"

Re:Amazon Echo Released by aaronbrethorst on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @01:04PM (#9765971)
As far as I can tell, it's a single-account device. It's great for families iff your use cases are music, timers, alarms, and weather. At some point I'd love to get around to adding my calendar, but that seems strange for the reason you mention.
Re:Amazon Echo Released by nonexpectation on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @02:41PM (#9766744)
You can add another profile, but it seems limited to 2. http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...