Amazon's plan to launch a paid version of Alexa faces technical issues and internal politics.
Amazon is revamping its Alexa voice assistant as it prepares to launch a new paid subscription plan this year, according to internal documents and people familiar with the matter. But the change is causing internal conflict and may lead to further delay.
I see. There is some info from 2017 that looks promising, but seems like nobody had the proper incentive to fully root them… except maybe some Russian actors. Let’s hope some “right to repair” gets to unlock them for legitimate owners too.
That would be great. It’s pretty amazing hardware. It was very heavily subsidized, I paid 20 bucks for them IIRC. I’m sure the BOM (bill of materials) alone would have been higher than that.
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Don’t throw it out… without first looking if you can flash a different firmware or somehow else reuse the hardware.
Unfortunately echo dots are very hard to repurpose. I have tried.
I see. There is some info from 2017 that looks promising, but seems like nobody had the proper incentive to fully root them… except maybe some Russian actors. Let’s hope some “right to repair” gets to unlock them for legitimate owners too.
That would be great. It’s pretty amazing hardware. It was very heavily subsidized, I paid 20 bucks for them IIRC. I’m sure the BOM (bill of materials) alone would have been higher than that.