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The Echo Dot feels like a device from the future to most people outside of our bubble.

I have a 76 year old auntie. After setting it up and explaining to her how to use it, she was able to request that Alexa play her favorite pop song from when she was a teenager and it worked.

It worked despite:

- This was her first time using it and she's wildly not a computer person

- Her having a thick tagalog accent

- It was some fairly obscure song that hasn't been played on the radio for forever

She's blown away and assumes that it costs $1000s of dollars, because nothing else works like this so it must be horrendously expensive, but no it costs about what a decent alarm clock/radio costs.

Similarly, my young kids love it as well b/c they can request music, etc.

While the primary use in our house is music, a close second would be timers+alarms (for cooking, leaving the house, taking turns, waking up, etc.) they're so quick and easy to set up.




> taking turns

Anecdotic question but can the Echo run a rotation, like a chore wheel?




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