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Introducing Google Home

by andrew3726 on 11/4/16, 4:57 PM with 13 comments

  • by sctb on 11/4/16, 7:10 PM

  • by pdog on 11/4/16, 7:04 PM

    I never thought people would pay for privilege of having an always-on, data-gathering microphone in their living room, but here we are.

  • by mattnewton on 11/4/16, 6:44 PM

    Does anyone own this / alexa and use it for anything other than a glorified bluetooth speaker? I've had an opportunity to interact with one of these at a friend's in the dogfooding program and it's still so far from Jarvis I can't see the appeal. My phone is a much better controller for speakers and the television. (not to mention the privacy concerns of having an internet enabled mic in your home)

  • by plg on 11/4/16, 6:49 PM

    that demo video is the worst! It doesn't even show what the darn thing does!

  • by AcerbicZero on 11/4/16, 7:22 PM

    I actually ordered one of these, as I tried the Alexa and found it to be useless beyond asking the weather (which is overly verbose) and playing music (best done via the app anyway).

    There are occasions when I just want to get a quick "Ok,Google" search done, and I'm fairly tied into the rest of the Google ecosystem anyway, so it seemed like it would be worth trying.

  • by fbreduc on 11/4/16, 7:19 PM

    I heard they have plans to abandon it next month