> And the Alexa Echo Shows in every room will soon become ewaste.

Please try to donate to a local hacker space, nephew, give away on craiglist, but this just makes me depressed every time. :-(

> It seems like everything Amazon does is half-baked, but enough to get out the door. There is no polish at that company.

Isn't that more and more becoming the norm? Google immediately comes to mind too, and the only exception is probably Apple, but at times even they throw shit on the market that just doesn't feel polished at all. It's just that more often than not they actually try to make it right then, instead of letting it linger...