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Alexa needs broadband
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So? Lots of other things do as well. Netflix has more stringent requirements for broadband than Alexa does.
Potentially. Having a home health care nurse come into your place invades privacy too, and many elderly people allow this. Each person has to balance how much something may help them against any potential downsides. We do this every day, for just about everything we do. Each of us are freely choosing to post on this forum, despite the potential for someone to glean information about us.
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Also a hugely environmentally wasting idea for audiobooks
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I would be interested to hear why you think an Echo Dot (or other Alexa device) is any more environmentally wasting than the Lenova tablet you mentioned as an alternative in your post.
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It may even be turned off
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You could drop and break a Lenova tablet and not be able to afford a replacement too. "It may not work in the future" is a scare tactic that would preclude you from buying pretty much anything, no matter what it is. Echo Dots are routinely on sale for less than $20. Compare that to the cost of a Lenova tablet.
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It needs a lot of humans to curate additions to the speech recognition and database and search.
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How many humans do you think it took to design, develop, test, manufacture and ship that Lenova tablet? How many humans it took to design something is not a criteria I typically use to decide whether buy it or not.