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I find the product oddly appealing, which is strange. It does not support audio books and the speaker is not as good as my stereo system. So, I really should have no use for it. But, then I think it would be really convenient to have an internet's worth of music available at all times. Thus, I am tempted.
The thing that kills it for me are those mics. I am usually not the paranoid big brother type. However, why would I want to put a set of microphones in my home that are networked? I suppose that if someone really wanted to hear what was going on in my house they could hack my computer's internal speaker to pick up sound or something and listen to me farting. I also have a land line phone, which is also a wired microphone. Despite these things, in this day and age of data gathering, I find the concept of the mics on a networked device very invasive. Target was able to accurately predict pregnancy based on shopping habits. Maybe Amazon will use the information to try to sell me beans.
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