Yes, I only have two Echo Dots because my cousin works as a programmer at Amazon (making 100k/year) and gave me an Echo Dot for Christmas...twice. I use it all the time but just to play music (jazzradio.com, di.fm, Amazon music, I Heart Radio, YouTube) (actually I've only used my YouTube plugin like once)...I'll probably use it less often though now that I got better speakers for my laptop so I tend to play music through my laptop now. I don't think I've used Alexa once since I got them.
No, I really have no use for this. It is in reality clumsy for any purpose I can imagine.
Yea I use Google assistant. I use it to look things up, set my alarm. Open apps. I don't care if they have my data. They have ALL our data. They all will have our data. So no big deal to me🙂
No. No one talks.
Only when I want to set an alarm before having a nap because it's quicker to long press the home button and say "wake me up in 45 minutes" than to set one manually. I turned off voice activation though because I don't like it always listening.
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