Makes sense, I can see #1 being an issue
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Would not be surprised if they do a rebrand eventually
What is the biggest one in the world?
"Rhubarb is used instead in the UK where actors say "rhubarb, rhubarb", gur-gur ("гур-гур") in Russia, and gaya (がや) in Japan, perhaps in part reflecting the varying textures of crowd noise in the different countries. Other phrases are "peas and carrots", "watermelon cantaloupe" and "natter natter" (to which the response is "grommish grommish").[2]"
One time I walked into a dark room with like 50 test devices to get something and somehow accidentally triggered them and all 50 started talking at the same time
Was both hilarious and creepy
You could use "baby crying detected" as an automation trigger
I remember constantly hearing about projects other teams were working on thinking "why would anyone use that" or "how would that ever make money"
Just trying to shoehorn alexa into as many domains as possible
It was like empire building at its finest
I would joke that the canary tests were the biggest customer for a lot of services
And the way amazon works with SOA even what seems like a small feature ends up being a couple services, a pizza team of 10 devs + SDM, the overhead is huge
Back when it was announced alexa org was being hit harder by layoffs that did not surprise me