The 14 biggest announcements from Amazon’s surprise hardware event

The Fire TV recast seems to be a shot across the bow for Tivo and Roku? the multiple speakers and amp seem to be a shot across the bow for Sonos and Bose?

The Alexa-everywhere tactics are reminiscent of the early AWS years. The SDKs and platforms for embedded systems are excellent long-term strategy.

The integration with Skype and Ring positions the Alexa Show to take over the video communication market. I'm surprised Microsoft hasn't attempted to release a Skype-based home-hub device. I'm also surprised Apple hasn't made more audacious moves towards a home-hub device.

The progression of product names is somewhat confusing -- how is the general public to keep track of "new" and "generation N" to understand features?

Honestly, I thought reading through this that it was an Onion article. Amazon is now pushing complete and total surveillance of you and your home. By Amazon.

the goal seems to pair "echo" with as many english words as possible.

echo: dot, auto, show, don’t show, plus, minus, sub, stars, galaxy, up

Which ones are real and which ones are fake?