Amazon Says 100 Million Alexa Devices Have Been Sold (theverge.com)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday January 4, 2019 @10:51AM from the for-the-record dept.

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."

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And are they using it? by SuperKendall · 2019-01-04 11:00 · Score: 1, Flamebait

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?

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Re:That's a lot of spying... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-04 11:03 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Someone modded you down, but, if I had mod points, I'd mod you back up. People, in aggregate, make terrible choices. Choices like buying a fucking always-on microphone and putting it in their homes. Maybe this wasn't true when communities were smaller (if/when that may have been), but it is now. Tyranny of the moronicy.