I got rid of my Alexa devices after they would not shut up. "Alexa what is the weather for today?" "The weather for today will be ... By the way, did you know that you can set alarms? Just say ..."

I do not care about whatever stupid feature you want to build engagement around. Do what I asked you to do and then shut up.

And don't get me started on the Alexa Show that had the audacity to display ads.

> I ordered it because when one superpower fails you, eventually you have to try the other one before they eventually ruin the thing that was working perfectly well before they tried to improve it in order to make enough money to be a trio of planets.

When your options are a few competing BigCos and you don’t have incentive to try to build it for yourself because it straddles the annoying in-between space of “frustrating enough to do something” and “ not frustrating or valuable enough to actually solve the problem.”

She sounds addicted to toxic relationships.

I sadly did the same as I didn't know best. The Google speakers started to have issues identifying the orders, so we bought some alexas, which we also use as speakers for our tvs.

Do you have a better recommendation of a smart speaker that can play spotify, youtube music, or tidal?

Well, now when she wants to know the symptoms of dehydration, she can purchase some sort of Gatorade really convenient like.

And how about this:

> The closest I could get to punching Google in the ear and ripping out its nose hairs.

As if giving more money to another shitty megacorp for another frustrating device is going to make any difference to the first shitty megacorp.