... the Amazon Echo, a cylindrical tower that's designed to sit in your home and listen for your voice commands. It then does searches and plays music and add stuff to your to do list blah blah blah. It's basically a $200 Google Now/Siri device that you can't move...
... If I'm going to have a $200 monolith in my home, I'm going to start with the Sonos Play:1 and start a usefull home speaker system, not a device that does less than what my phone does already.
Can someone explain the appeal of this device to me?
Would one Amazon echo unit actually be enough? How many different room situations were shown in the demonstration video?
Ignoring the $100 invitation discount, five units doesn't seem unreasonable to have good coverage (even with the 'far field' eavesdropping technology), especially in the sprawling McMasions that have become so widespread. $1000 for the system - wonder how well it would actually work across multiple units?
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