Alexa still needs to fix how you interact with skills, most skills are far too much work to use to be worthwhile or timesaving:
1. You have to memorize your Skill's names to use most of them ie "Alexa, open BART Times" or "Alexa, ask Uber to request a ride"
2. There is no context or stringing together of commands I can't say "Turn off the Living room and Office lights", Instead I have to issue separate commands for each room.
This is great! Having played around with Alexa for the first time all weekend, I an say that....
1. Enabling skills by voice is great (going to the Alexa app to install them usually means a command didnt work and kind of cuts into the flow of things)
2. My mom absolutely loves her, see this tweet thread: https://twitter.com/Nivo0o0/stat...
3. Alexa meets Product Hunt: https://vine.co/v/5uOT72XOgpx
1st weekend with Alexa:
God Hates Charades - 8 Bit Expansion
VC Puzzle