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Owen Williams@ow · Digital Director at VanMoof
This is awesome! Really seems like a trojan horse for owning the smart home over even Apple or Google. I just wish Sonos would integrate it 😡
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@marty@marty · Director, Tens
@ow exactly This! Perfect opportunity for Echo & Sonos to work together. I'm sure someone in the Samsung SmartThings community will pull together a hacky solution and have it on GitHub soon enough 😛 Edit: Seems that there already is a (very) hacky solution via SmartThings - https://community.smartthings.co...
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Neil Sandhu@neilsandhu · Founder and CEO, Hire.Bid
@ow agreed. Amazon truly is taking over the home and, in turn, Alexa may win war with Siri and Google Now.
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Matt Gardner@thatmattgardner · Co-Founder, RouteThis.com
@ow I want Google Play Music... and also availability in Canada :p Debating hooking up an old FireTV, VPN-ing, and getting a prime trial just to drive to the border and grab it. Just finished installing all my smart lighting (wemo + gue) and this looks amazing. Echo was always a bit too pricey for my mild home automation needs and lack of features here but t… See more
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Andy Kim@drew23 · Entrepreneur; Sr UXD @ Amazon Alexa
@ow It's coming...
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rsweetland@rsweetland · Co-Founder, FollowUpThen
@ow I'm not sure which way Amazon is going to go with this. It's apparent now they are going for multiple Echos per household. Given that, synchronizing music / audio between Echos seems like a logical next step. If they keep audio output closed, it would force people to adopt the "Amazon Sound System", which would also, incidentally, put Alexa in every roo… See more
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Alex Diaz@optimusdiaz · Marketing & Ops @ Uber ⚡️
@ow I'm confused how dot and regular echo defer (aside from the height) - no speaker on the dot?
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Craig Stanford@craigstanford · Co-Founder & VP of BizDev @ StageHound
@ow My chief want, need and desire for my Echo too, aside from being able to give Alexa a new name of my choice.
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