Amazon plans to charge for Alexa in June—unless internal conflict delays revamp
arstechnica.com
Report claims Amazon is struggling to build a subscription version of Alexa.
    • Damage@feddit.it
      14·
      10 months ago

      As long as processing is offloaded to the cloud, something’s gotta pay for it, either a subscription or your personal data.

      Problem is, I don’t trust Amazon to not double dip, so fuck 'em.

      We need offline personal assistants, support Home Assistant.

      • ⲇⲅⲇ
        4·
        10 months ago

        Exactly, the problem is that even if you pay for the subscription, they will still use your data for their profit. Big companies are so abusive…

      • Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        I mean I thought the whole point of Alexa was to make you buy more stuff from Amazon?

    • ⲇⲅⲇ
      15·
      10 months ago

      I don’t even have an Amazon account, I don’t care what they want to do.