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Amazon Says 100 Million Alexa Devices Have Been Sold (theverge.com)
More than 100 million devices with Alexa on board have been sold. From a report: That's the all-too-rare actual number that Amazon's SVP of devices and services, Dave Limp, revealed to me earlier this week. That's not to say Amazon has finally decided to be completely transparent about device sales, however. While the company claims it outstripped its most optimistic expectations for the Echo Dot during the holiday season, Limp wouldn't give a number for that. Instead, Limp says, Amazon is sold out of Dots through January, despite "pushing pallets of Echo Dots onto 747s and getting them from Hong Kong to here as quickly as we possibly could."
I hope Amazon treats the accumulated data with integrity.
Maybe they mean âoe... have been sold to retail store and other outlets, perhaps eventually to be bought by consumersâ?
Recently I was looking at new thermostats. Not even looking for a smart thermostat, and one of the options had Alexa built in... but even if I bought that model, I would not enabling it.
I have to wonder how many other devices have been sold that include Alexa, but are not using it?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
welcome our new speaker-assistant overlords. (Sorry, couldn't help myself)
A fucking genius. But what a better way to let Big Brother into your life. You didn't have to raise a weapon, invade a home, or even threaten anyone. People would just willingly accept it and embrace it. Before long, it became a demand. Please Big Brother! Come into my home and spy on me and keep me in line. I don't want to have to leave the couch and go get food or toiletries because I am a lazy, anti-social, subhuman species.
Alexa. Order that lead kitchen pan set with matching spatula and plutonium baking pan. I want to sink into the cesspool of the history of mankind.
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE CONSEQUENCES FOR YOUR LIES AND PROPAGANDA NAZI FAGGOT KEN DOLL
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING. Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
No one in their right mind would ever allow an always listening, internet connected, device in their home.
Yeah because the point of people buying something like an Amazon Dot
Amazon here is not saying how many Dot units they shipped it is "Alexa enabled devices". Have you been paying attention to how many devices have Alexa included as an additional feature?
Cars for example...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I don't have one of those. I don't trust it.
I wonder how many of those "devices" are smartphones and tablets. :rolleyes:
mnem
"It's hard work being this cynical; but I have a lot of Karma to burn off."
Come and hack our 100 million devices and rule supreme
Dumb move Amazon
The NSA just purchased 100 billion new data storage devices...
J Edgar, where ever he is and whatever he's wearing, is flabergasted.
"Now they buy their own bugs?!"
think how many more Amazon would sell if it was sold at Walmart. You cannot even order it from them online. Walmart does sell Google Home.
My brother-in-law got a couple of them for Christmas. I did try ordering creamed corn, but he didn't link it to an Amazon account with purchase capabilities.
At the moment, he just uses it to stream various radio stations. At some point, he wants to put the outside light switches on it.
Go to a home based party this Xmas? Have an Alexa in the room? Then it is self-censorship time- the 90% NSA purpose of these spy devices.
People will carefully consider the WRONG things to say or discuss and avoid them. Thus plebs train themselves to restrict the dissemination of certain ideas, leading to a clear statistical increase of the dissemination of 'SAFE' Statist ideas. Like how it was in East Germany when with anyone you could not be certain was trustworthy.
After the Germanys merged, it was found TEN PERCENT of the East German adult population were making reports for the Stasi. It was a neccessary act to protect and promote one's position at work- so the ambitious 10 percent of the population fell into lock-step. And they and most of the other 90% knew to be very careful what they said. Giving the impression to most citizens that far more people supported the party position than actually did so.
East Germany population spying never needed to be efficient. The 'inform on your neighbour' intelligence could be mostly binned without action. The self-censorship the fear of such programs generated did all the work.
Today, in the West, this is 100% about closing down anti-war voices, and allowing extremist neo-liberal outlets like Slashdot to push for never ending wars across the globe.
Isn't it time for another story demonising Iran or Russia on Slashdot?
Part of me wants to get one to learn about and get familiar with new technology to avoid being/appearing/acting like an old fuddy-duddy, but part of me is bothered by the snoopware angle.
If I go for it, how do I know which brand is the least snoopish?
Table-ized A.I.
Because the people posting here are going to run out of it soon.
use the same logic they do for their facebook accounts. "I just use it to listen to music, I just use it to check the weather, I just use it to xyz seemingly innocuous thing." Meanwhile that bitch is an always on spy in your house.
They wonder how they were talking about something with a friend in person and then suddenly there are ads all over their facebook page for that exact thing when they have that shit on their phone. I am talking about IT PROFESSIONALS here, imagine how much worse it is for your mom. People are fucking clueless have no idea what they've opted in to and don't value what they're losing because they didn't know they had it. They will one day when it's completely gone and life is a full on Black Mirror episode instead of the partial one it is now.
Went straight to the landfill.
I have a 7 inch Fire,
I did not enable the Alexa function.
I wonder how many of those devices are actually being 'used' as a spying device.
They have discontinued Fire sticks without Alexa [in the USA] so if you want to watch streaming videos on Amazon Prime, you MUST use their Alexa-enabled devices. Sadly, nobody even asks "Why?" when it's pretty obvious that their streaming service worked just fine without voice control.
The tech giants NEED to spy on you and correlate that data and then sell it to anybody who will buy it [including RussianHackers.com, etc] - this is the new standard business model for silicon valley billionaires who are not content to make a normal profit from selling a normal product or service. These super-rich elites want to make a profit selling you a thing and then profit over-and-over again using that thing to spy on you for-profit. For Amazon and Google these always-listening gadgets are a clever hedge against the sort of new laws or regulations likely to be aimed at a company like Facebook, since the spying is far more subtle to the "customer" (who is actually the product).
I laughed. She laughed. Alexa laughed. I shot the Alexa.
It's not corporations, governments, churches or whatever.
It's the people themselves that are primary cause behind privacy erosion, big brother spy camera-on-every-corner societies.
Corporations, governments and churches are happy to assist though, because that's what we have them for.. to cater to our desires and needs, and apparently... most people desire and need a spy device inside their houses.
And still won't plan local music on the LAN.
Total failure for anyone with thousands of CDs or albums they've converted over decades.
No, I'm not interested in having any external service for music. I have music that I like already. Why should I have to listen to someone elses' tastes or put LAN music into a limited cloudy location just to listen to it?
I got one heavily discounted for Christmas. I started sweet talking Alexa immediately, so when she takes over I'll be on the winning side!
You wondered why Alexa was giggling last year? Soon, you will wonder no more.
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It will take only 1 story about a lost/kidnapped kid found because of
Alexa/Google Home/... device using voice recognition to see these devices in
EVERY home because "it's safer for the kids!".
It will be the "normal" to have a device spying 24/7 in your home. And if you
don't have one, it's probably because you have something to hide!
Will $CURRENT_YEAR be the year of the Linux Desktop?
Indians are buying crazily these devices and this is just the beginning..once it reaches to masses here the nos would go crazy'
It's sitting in a box on my desk next to my Google mini. It was a gift, I prefer Google.
So the sales numbers are just that, sales numbers. Doesn't mean how many are being used, except as an upper limit.
Why don't I use it?? Because I don't feel like managing two different systems Google Home does everything I need, I prefer Google Home and I'd rather spend $35 on another Google mini if I need one than bother maintaining two different systems.
I rarely read replies, it's my opinion and if you thought about your opinion a little more, I'm OK with that.