Ask HN: Why didn't Amazon put a Zxxx hub into echo?

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Anyone have any thoughts on why Amazon didn't put a Zwave or Zigbee or whatever RX/TX device into the echo. I suspect the cost would be very minimal for hardware. SW non-trivial but definitely do-able. Now I need to go out and buy a full hub for a tiny piece of silicon that Amazon could have included directly in the echo itself.

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I doubt Amazon wants to be the primary point of contact for support whenever cheap Zigbee or ZWave hardware is failing.

And a lot of the hardware is crap and will fail.

Not sure why they didn't include something like an FM radio though. (OK, I do... But still, I'd like one!)

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