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[–] whenyellowstonehasitsday@fedia.io 54 points 2 months ago

Amazon hoped the unit would one day generate a profit by users spending more money somehow

anybody that's used an alexa for more than about 5 minutes should have noticed that pretty much everything it can do that's more complicated than setting a timer to tell you when your chicken nuggets are done is designed to push you into the amazon services ecosystem