Originally Posted by alarmguy
I work in customers homes on a daily basis and people who have it and also the Amazon Echo love them.
Just started with linking in the security systems with Echo.
There will always be naysayers and privacy concerns but I suspect it will do quite well judging by the limited input from customers lately. It is a bit more of a step up from the days of email so I suspect not everyone will have one but as time goes on most.
AS far as the privacy thing, I think its valid for me personally but the general public doesnt care (at least not yet) as they gave up their privacy when gmail became so popular, since it was ad free in exchange for having your email electronically scanned and information from those emails sold to the highest bidder as just about every "free" internet service does now, even the ones with ads, though they dont scan your emails yet, your cookies provide what you are doing and when.
What I just typed is not being negative, I am confirming your positive review, it will become quite popular.
I am addressing the naysayers and I dont disagree with them about privacy but dont be a naysayer if you are accepting free email accounts or anything free on line.
Maybe better said, researching and learning to limit the exposure of your private information all over the internet, then you earn a degree to be a naysayer.
Im getting there but not there yet, I have opened up some pay email accounts and recently a VPN, most of this because all the data breaches and drives me nuts that all these companies are making money off our information that we trade for free services but they make WAY more then we get in return.
In reality our private information including every single movement we make is tracked one way or another and the cell phone is the biggest offender of all, as the price for those "free" apps is another trade for your privacy.
Anyway, great feedback on the device, I bet it will be a big holiday item this year, who knows, I will not discount having one myself.
I have two Echo Dots and two of the taller units (Echo). We love them. Not concerned about privacy. I carry around a "live" cell phone. My car has a "black box" the police can access if I have an accident. OH-It also has OnStar tracking my very boring life.......
