In the realm of great tech being woefully underutilized, I present for your approval Amazon's Albatross: Alexa! My Alexa is a fancy egg timer for when I'm cooking food. "Alexa 15 minutes". She tries fruitlessly and get me to use other features.. "Alexa. Sthaaaaap!" What do you waste Alexa's capabilities on?
Timer and music. My 4 year old talks to Alexa like she’s a friend. “HEY ALEXA, DO YOU WANT TO GO TO THE TRAMPOLINE PARK?” “HEY ALEXA, DID I TAKE MY IMMUNITY BOOSTER”. Yes, he always shouts at Alexa. Always.
My 4yo uses it as affirmation toy.. he gets happy when it plays that pancake robot song as he orders Alexa to play it. No other use for me.
Timer, Spotify player, controlling a few smart plugs, counting down days until something (‘Alexa, how many days until Christmas?’), and my kids like to make it tell jokes sometimes
I don’t use Aleza. Most useless thing ever created.
Nah that would be Clippy
NORAD tracker for kids during Christmas Time “Alexa where is Santa” .. listening to music , timer , alarms , and dropping in when travelling
Weather and turning on my air filter
It is a fancy egg timer in my house, and we use it as a walkie talkie so we don't have to shout at each other from upstairs or downstairs.
I use it as an example of why we shouldn’t give unaccountable companies (Amazon, Google,…) our personal data.
My Alexa stays unplugged. She kept giving me too many weather alerts and I hated the fact that the green blink signa was used for both live calls and general notifications, so I never knew if I was on a hot mic. Live calls should've been a red blinking signal instead. Also, the blink camera integration stopped working with my fire tv and her search results left much to be desired. Google home on the other hand has blown me away. I'll randomly ask it a question (what's the specific heat of a potato) and am nearly always amazed at the answer.
Yeah Alexa is dumb for a lot of applications. This morning I asked for hours on a store and it gave me the time of day.
Play Spotify, as internal ring camera / speaker Will not buy another
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