You can’t swing a cat in a San Francisco co-working space these days without hitting someone halfway through a passionate article expressing their love for the Amazon Echo, the voice-enabled speaker released by the retail giant in 2014. Alexa, for that is the name of the Echo’s voice assistant, has only grown in power along with the speaker’s popularity, making it that rare example of a tech product where the hype builds gradually after an understated launch.
I sure would love to check the Echo out, but I’m not sure I’ll ever get the chance to. And that’s not just because it’s not available in Japan, where I live and where it hasn’t been released — of course I could always import one. The reason I don’t think I can ever use the Echo...
via The Verge
