These services make business travel so much easier. I sometimes wonder, though, if they'll be a distant, fond memory, given they still haven't found a sustainable business model.
When I was in Boy Scouts, the older scouts would always tell us there was a cola machine at the top of a local peak stocked with something called Inca Kola.
Of course, there was no such thing, but I was surprised to later learn that Inca Kola is real.
If you were to choose a car solely because of its infotainment system, what would you go with? Thought about that as was struggling with a conference call from my car this morning. Being able to do stuff like listen to podcasts, navigating via Google Maps, etc, as easily as possible might actually be my top car buying criterion.
I got an Amazon Echo as a present a couple months ago. I haven't even bothered to unbox it. What can it really do, besides order stuff from Amazon for me? Play Amazon music? Not a subscriber. Turn off my lights? Nice party trick, but I live in a small apartment, not much use there. Look stuff up on Wikipedia?
I'm used to this, since I went to Catholic school for 12 years. I wear jeans, a polo shirt, a 1/4 zip pullover, and sneakers to work. Every day. Same thing, different colors. It's work, not a party, who do I think I'm showing off to?