Amazon plans to charge for Alexa in June—unless internal conflict delays revamp | Ars Technica - eviltoast
  • LanternEverywhere@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    This is a misleading headline. It’s not talking about the existing Alexa products suddenly requiring a subscription for them to work, no the rumor is talking about a subscription for their upcoming higher tier Alexa Plus service with more advanced capabilities that’s based on generative AI.

      • Damage@feddit.it
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        10 months ago

        As long as processing is offloaded to the cloud, something’s gotta pay for it, either a subscription or your personal data.

        Problem is, I don’t trust Amazon to not double dip, so fuck 'em.

        We need offline personal assistants, support Home Assistant.

        • ⲇⲅⲇ@lemmy.ml
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          10 months ago

          Exactly, the problem is that even if you pay for the subscription, they will still use your data for their profit. Big companies are so abusive…

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          10 months ago

          I mean I thought the whole point of Alexa was to make you buy more stuff from Amazon?

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        10 months ago

        I don’t even have an Amazon account, I don’t care what they want to do.