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

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. That's a lot of spying... by QuietLagoon · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hope Amazon treats the accumulated data with integrity.

    1. Re:That's a lot of spying... by Desler · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It's also a lot of dumbfuck consumers.

  2. I for one by nwaack · · Score: 2

    welcome our new speaker-assistant overlords. (Sorry, couldn't help myself)

  3. Re:And are they using it? by Desler · · Score: 2

    Yeah because the point of people buying something like an Amazon Dot is to not use the Alexa feature. Right....

  4. The people I know who have one or more of these by waspleg · · Score: 2

    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.