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Amazon Wants You To Turn Your Fire Tablet Into a Portable Echo (cnbc.com)
Amazon on Thursday introduced software and accessories that will turn its Fire HD tablets into a portable Echo. From a report: The company on Thursday unveiled a new case and stand for the Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10 tablet so those devices will act almost just like the Amazon Echo Show, a larger gadget that has a touch display. You can call up recipes in the kitchen, see song lyrics for music that you're playing, place video calls to friends, start movies and more, all without touching the tablet and with a visual interface that was previously available only on the Echo Show and Echo Spot.
I guess Amazon is giving no love to the Fire HD 7 tablets. I got one for Christmas. Since it doesn't behave like an iPad, I don't have much use for it.
Can I turn a echo into a tablet? Can I turn a toaster into a true lover
No more Alexa for me. period. I pulled the plug. I pulled the plug on Google assistant too. I think you all should do the same.
I'm not quite at the point where I will go to a shack in Montana to keep Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Apple from spying on me...
But I'm close.
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As long as I can turn that functionality off and rely on it to actually stay off then I guess that is ok. If Amazon insists on listening to everything I say no matter what I do then I won't be using their Fire device unless they are paying me a salary to do so.
Seriously, stop it. I don't want or need my electronics to be constantly listening to what I'm saying.
Yeah, sure, Amazon. What you really want is more collection of very-much-private data in people's homes, so you can sell that to whoever. Fuck you sideways with a rusty chainsaw, Amazon.
You don't have to go full-on Ted Kaczynski and become a mountain-man. Just get rid of all the devices you own that are known to be capable of being leveraged into surveillance-and-data-collection devices. Wean yourself off your smartphone and get a plain dumbphone, one that can be turned completely 'Off', or at least that the battery can be removed (or, I suppose, get a smartphone with a removable battery, and take the battery out when you want actual privacy). While you're at it, stop using plastic to pay for everything you purchase in-person and start paying cash instead, so that the majority of your daily purchasing habits can't be tracked either -- which will have the positive side-effect of reducing the amount of time you spend balancing your checking account every month (fewer receipts to enter). Until things change in this country and people's rights to privacy are enhanced instead of degraded, there's only so much you can do to keep your private life private, but there are some things you can do, and if it matters to you then you should do them, and ignore the cowards who have given up and accepted having corporations and government agencies pry into every aspect of their lives.
The Fire tablet doesn't have enough glare.Can they make one with more glare?
Learn from my mistake! Never buy a Kindle fire!
The browser loses your typing. It interprets the most basic touch as a desire to spell check a word, then kicks you off the text window, losing everything.
The browser is the kind that NOBODY would ever choose, but last time I checked you could not change it.
Apps are highly restricted: good luck finding one that does what you want.
You cannot even read a Kindle book on it without losing the will to live: the Kindle software has so many bells and whistles that it interprets a touch as anything EXCEPT turning a page.
I bought it because it was the best touch sensitive screen for the price. But factor in the cost of lost work and lost time and it's the most expensive tablet out there.
"Amazon wants you to turn your fire tablet into a portable echo."
English motherfucker, you speak it?
I'm not quite at the point where I will go to a shack in Montana to keep Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Apple from spying on me...
But I'm close.
I'm already there. Now I gotta watch out for the laser mics & directional drills.
I do not have any of these devices and do not want them either, so I am ignorant as to their operational details; can a 'Fire Tablet' be turned completely off?
Sure. Plus if all else fails drain the battery. Hard for it to function without power. That wasn't my question however. My question is can the FUNCTIONALITY be turned off in software and reliably depended upon to remain in that state. If not then these devices can die in a fire. If I can turn the setting off then no biggie.