He’s not ready to talk to a plastic puck? His friend ‘taught’ her echo to play ambient music? Honestly this sounds like it should have been written in 2015.
and tbh I'm not really ready to talk to a plastic puck either. It's pretty weird, not to mention the uneasiness of having some poorly secured hacked up version of Android running 24/7 in my house with a big fat microphone attached designed to pick up as much as possible.
...and who knows, maybe his friend did tech it about ambient by writing an Alexa skill to organize her ambient playlists.
It’s not about talking to, it’s about proper hands free control.
95% of things are better controlled with hands, but there is a significant set of things where voice control is superiour (usually due to your hands being otherwise occupied).
Honestly, to me the article comes off reading like a not so subtle ad...with gratuitous namedrops and a sort of strawman "I don't need this product...but all my friends!"
Anyone want to place bets that it is?
'Technophobe', maybe?