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Originally Posted by OtinG
I never thought that and I never said or wrote that, so not sure why you think that is the case. I happen to agree with you that having text input would be a nice feature, but I also know that Amazon probably doesn't won't to use up resources to make that happen. Amazon has a habit of ignoring what users request. Take the Kindles and the Kindle books they display as an example. Amazon refuses to give us the ability to set text formatting beyond the very basics, nor the ability to have greater control over things like line height, margin sizes, etc. Why? Because they just won't do it. Makes no sense, and people have complained for many, many years, but Amazon still mostly ignores those complaints and requests.
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Looking at it from the outside, I don't see it using up a lot of Amaxon resources to make it happen. All they would need to do in the Alexa app is add a text option in routines; I'm guessing the server side would take up even fewer resources. They added skills and routines, text commands seems like a no-brainer for expanding routibes?.
I see a lot of bang for the buck in doing it.
And we seem to have very different behaviour with Alexa. If I really try, I can get voice commands to execute 95% of the time. I would expect text commands to be 100%.