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These Are the Five Types of Alexa Users: Which one are you?
Slate ^ | MAY 27, 2018 | CHRISTINA BONNINGTON

Posted on 05/27/2018 4:46:40 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Ask around, and you’ll find a surprising number of people have a smart speaker in their homes. As of January, 1 in 6 Americans own a voice-activated speaker, but Gartner predicts 75 percent of U.S. households will have one by 2020. With a broad gamut of capabilities—streaming news and music, answering questions, issuing reminders, and controlling connected home products—they can offer a good value proposition, particularly when paired with an attractive price point.

But just because our Echos, Google Homes, and HomePods can do all sorts of things doesn’t mean we’re taking advantage of every single one of their features. Many of us are content to rely on our digital assistants for just one, or a handful, of specific tasks. With that in mind, there seem to be several distinct emerging classes of smart speaker users to which people belong.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: alexa; bloggers; echodot
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To: TexasGator

Give it a rest-—there was no insult to FReepers,it was just an opinion.

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101 posted on 05/28/2018 7:45:31 AM PDT by Mears
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To: M Kehoe
Alexa, compute the ratio “Pi” to the last digit.

most elementary school teachers would find that trivial - 3.14 duh!

102 posted on 05/28/2018 8:02:27 AM PDT by goo goo g'joob
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To: Mears

Give it a rest. He doubled-down on his insult.


103 posted on 05/28/2018 9:16:24 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: Mears

“,it was just an opinion”

An opinion that certain Creepers are suckers ...


104 posted on 05/28/2018 9:31:47 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: TexasGator

I answered you ....


105 posted on 05/28/2018 11:48:05 AM PDT by mythenjoseph
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To: mythenjoseph

I repeat my question.

Why do people come on these threads just to insult fellow freepers?


106 posted on 05/28/2018 12:00:23 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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