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More Than 8M People Own an Amazon Echo As Customer Awareness Increases 'Dramatically' (geekwire.com)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gaining-traction dept.

Amazon continues to see more and more traction with its voice-enabled speaker. An anonymous reader writes: A new report from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) estimates that there are now 8.2 million customers who own an Amazon Echo device, which first went on sale in late 2014 to Prime members and became generally available in June 2015. That's up 60 percent from the 5.1 million Echo users that CIRP cited in November 2016; the big increase likely resulted from a busy holiday season that saw Echo sales spike 9X from the year prior, according to Amazon. The 8.2 million number is also up nearly 3X from this time last year, CIRP said.

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  1. Voice assistants are another fad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Alexa, Google Home, Siri, Google Assistant. All of them. There have already been articles out that say usage is dropping after the "new" factor wears off.

    They will go the way of 3D TV within five years.

    1. Re:Voice assistants are another fad by houstonbofh · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Actually, it is dropping because of the walled garden. If echo was tied into Wikipedia (and with skills, it is) it would be used a lot more. The problem is the way skills are presented, which is not at all. If you install Wiki Brains or Professor Kay, usage goes up dramatically!

  2. Orwell's Echo reverberates in the irony chamber. by geekmux · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Amazon confirms Americans are incredibly lazy and don't give a shit about privacy.

    Is this really a shock to anyone?

    This may be enshrined as one of the greatest events in the entire fucking history of irony, as sales of Orwell's 1984 and the Echo top Amazon sales charts.