Will you use Alexa+ or no?

The Alexa app is sooo 💩 (try finding the Philips Hue skill) and unreliable, that there is NO WAY I'm giving Alexa more control over my house. Great hardware (the Echos), but the software ruins it all. My Echos are allowed to turn on my lights, tell me the weather forecast, and start Flows on my Homey.
I hope the HA Voice Assistant will one day be easy enough for me to understand and use, or better, integrate somehow with Homey.

I love the echo person! It's awesome!

When Amazon first looked at buying iRobot, mum could not understand why, until I pointed out having a map of your house, then allows targeted ads for coffee tables etc to fill any large open areas and other suggestions. Luckily the merger never went ahead,

slightly better alexa being a prime feature is just another example of how amazon is a horrible fucking company. I genuinely get happy any time anything they do fails

Everything you do is already being recorded and sold. Google collects massive amounts of data on you already. Until laws are passed to limit data ownership your data is out there and being used by lots of entities.

I have a feeling the ring feature requires you to have the ring Premium subscription which has the Smart Video Search feature. this is the feature that lets you identify people, animals, objects, etc in video events.

I am totally using it -_-

It’s funny how often I see people clamoring for smart, fully integrated solutions that link to everything—yet they balk at the idea of sharing any data at all. I’m not saying you should hand over your information without question, but let’s be realistic: if you want a suite of feature-rich services and interconnected devices that run smoothly, you have to concede something. Until we reach a level of true artificial general intelligence where everything can be handled locally, there’s simply no getting around some degree of data sharing.

what the heck is A+?

My Echo show is now just a shop front that tries to get me to buy things every minute of the day (it feels like this anyway) and now it's looking around at connected devices – so told me my ink cartridge was running low. Obviously to try and get me to buy a new one there and then, not because it was being friendly.

It's pretty obvious that Prime customers will get it free for beta testing and for those that get hooked in, they'll separate it or add a surcharge. They can't really add more ads because it's already full of ads. That is unless they put ads within ads, which might well be a suggestion they're going to read here and actually do. Sorry.

if only they would get rid of the ads on my shows…

No I would not. I don't have any Alexa devices in my hope and don't plan on buying any. I have all Apple devices but even with that I rarely use Siri.

I don't get it. There's some "gee whiz" type features in here, but literally nothing that makes me care about A+. When you add the privacy and know the cost is going up….hard pass. A+ is going to kill Alexa.

Amazon are late on using data, Apple & MS having doing this for over a decade, people warm us about this, 99% of you did nothing….Good luck

Can I cancel Alexa +?

Smart home solver I have a question. Does Alexa work with Home Assistant? I haven’t yet figured that out.

i dont think this will work in my country, i m not from usa.

"Say yes and buy a peanut snack", well, hmm that's too much data:) Sounds like those A+ may replace Medical History of each person, soon?)

Nice – Local LLM – This is the Way! : ) Looking forward)

Local… Say it with me. LOCAL. Local only. No cloud