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Amazon Unveils Echo, a Speaker With a Siri-Like Voice Assistant

elemenohme said:
I've spent way too much time trying to do stuff like this with Siri. Even with the Hey Siri implementation in iOS 8, there are a couple of drawbacks:
1) Siri won't do anything for you when your phone locks, so you have to unlock it or leave it unlocked. So even in the morning when it's plugged in on my nightstand I have to unlock it before I can ask Siri anything; and
2) a lot of Siri's responses are "I found this on the web" with a screen of search results. What we have today is not very "eyes free".

Sometimes Siri just gets stuck, too, waiting... even when I've finished my command. Or it just stops listening altogether.

Regardless of what Siri can do, this product looks like a fun alarm clock/toy and it's cheaper than the Ivee (which gets awful reviews).
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Siri can do things with a locked screen. I keep it plugged in when I drive, and it works with the screen off.
 
Should have looked like this
 

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I must be the only person that thinks this looks cool.

and I must be the only person that lives a boring life that absolutly no one would ever want to eaves drop on. I don't know why, a twenty minute argument with my 11yo on cereal choices in the morning is a fun conversation to hear.
 
This looks great, a high quality bluetooth speaker with dozens of other uses selling at cost. I requested my invite immediately.
 
Is this site sill called MacRumors? So anything related to voice activation is worthy of a front page post because Apple has Siri? :confused:
 
I don't want anything by my bed that can listen and hit the cloud. If I want to know what time it is or what the weather is, I'll check it on my phone or iPad.
Also, why invites? That is super lame.
 
DT beat me to the punch.....


Put it in a rectangle box with a glass lens and red light.....name it Hal.

Hal, sing me to sleep.....


Daisy.....Daisy.....
 
Rebrand it as your own HAL9000..... Red dot, voice and all.

"And we promise it won't kill you"
Money back guarantee if it does (less shipping & handling)
 
Small White Car said:
Fascinating device.

In the good old "personal computer" days Apple was content to sit at the top with their top-of-the-line desktops and laptops and that was good for them.

As the mobile world took over they've been content to do pretty much the same thing with phones and tablets. (Yes, with older models coming down in price, but by and large the approach is the same.)

But this kind of stuff is going to be the next big thing and I'm curious if Apple is going to make this jump or not. Might we see a future where households don't have five $1,000 Apple products but instead fifty $100 Apple products? I don't know if they have that in them.

Their home kit stuff for iOS shows they're getting ready, but it does seem like Apple is going to let other companies take the lead on hardware and Apple will be content to be the platform.

While we never know the future we've at least had a sense of what Apple was trying to be in the past. I feel like that's not so clear anymore. Will be interesting to find out.
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Well, Tim did say they were working on a ring, but for some reason he laughed after saying it.
 
Me: "Hey Sir, how to you spell Cantaloupe?"
Siri: "Checking my sources"
Siri: "The answer is Cantaloupe" (note: Not actually spelled)

Siri fail :(
 
those that say DOA.....want to take a bet they are sold out and the ship times will be pushed through the new year? We are talking about a $100 product for prime members. It is an impulse buy!
 
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