You say that as if Amazon Alexa was some kind of amazing product. t succeeded because it has Amazon backing and it's kindof a crappy product.
All voice assistants, at least the original iterations, are only good for 3-4 trivial things people actually want. And they've been around for a decade at this point.
It’s a kitchen timer, music player, and weather sayer.
That’s surely worth the $30 I paid.
I had to laugh, these are literally the only three things my wife and I use ours for. At a stretch, I'll count the multi-room speaker sync as a great value add to the OOTB audio playback. Anything else, forget it.
Don’t forget grocery list add-er!
I will never talk to a computer until they are sentient.
What makes it crappy? I find it really good at voice detection