• Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Even when I was an Amazon customer, which I no longer am for the usual reasons, I would never have used Alexa to make a purchase of a physical good. Hell I wouldn’t trust it to get “order a 12-pack of diet pepsi” right, I’d get sent the mini cans or bottles or diet caffeine free pepsi or whatever.

    Often when I’m looking online to buy something it’s because I can’t get it locally, which means I’m being kind of particular.

    Maybe. maybe. I would use it to make a media purchase of some kind. But I very rarely used Amazon for multimedia; Audible, maybe. I bought one DVD and two streamable movies from Amazon EVER.

    And as a Kindle Fire user, I found Alexa to not work very well anyway. Because it’s designed for a device that doesn’t have a screen, it can’t do a lot of things that Siri or Bixby or Android Voice Formerly Google Talk Is Being Replaced With Play Assistant can, and the syntax of “Alexa, ask a skill to do a thing” was just something I wasn’t going to fuck with.