Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year

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[–]Myocarditis-Man 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If this is true, it doesn't bode well for people who already have these things; because Amazon will have to pursue a more aggressive/profit focused business strategy.

If you want to see a current-day example of what I'm talking about, look at the current state of the Windows platform or cable TV or video games or well, anything controlled by a huge corporation. Ads everywhere, your machine doing stuff behind your back that you don't approve of like fetching and installing third party apps by itself, etc etc.

I've got an idea, extra monthly subscription fees to do things like set timers, reminders, etc etc.

Those questions aren't monetizable.

You underestimate corporate America and the power of psychology and marketing.

[–]Musky 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Amazon already tried monetizing the Alexa devices several times now, trying to solicit business through the voice assistant in various ways.

It's really annoying and I bet a customer backlash is why they stopped. Imagine asking for the weather and getting an ad, or asking for a definition and being asked to try a product. Didn't work, everyone just I assume, like me, just annoyedly tell Alexa to STFU.

I'm a little concerned they'll just drop the entire product line. I love mine, listen to an ungodly amount of music on the little spy.