Episode 595: The Silent Disco

Where do you come home on all the various home assistants? Like, you know, I have, we've got the Alexa here at my house.

We've got the, I've got the Astori speaker.

I don't have any Google Home.

Yeah.

And of course now there's the, the actual home view from Apple.

My net take on all these things is like, don't obviously don't have the home view.

So I've not seen that one, but like we've had these assistants now probably for like somewhere between like five and 10 years.

And pretty much useless.

Like the only things, occasionally my wife will ask it to play music off the bad Alexa speaker.

It kind of works.

You know, when we ask you questions, maybe like 80% of the time, because this is a reasonable answer.

So 20% of the time is just, you know, it's just like, you know, the answer is Captain Hook.

You're like, what do you mean? Like, what are we even talking about that? So something that's ridiculous.

The answer is Captain Hook.

And the only thing, useful thing that we do use it, I guess we use it as like a shared place for a shopping list because when you're in the kitchen and you're using something, you can just tell it like add such and such to the shopping list.

So that's the only use case we've actually done something where I would actually say where it's like increased productivity, right? Where is that everything else? Complete waste of time.

I'm picking on, I don't even think it matters.

Like I would pick on these equally between Surrey and Alexa.

I think they're both equally useless or equally useful depending on how you want to say it.

The Surrey speaker, I think the only thing that's good about that is it's a really good speaker because it automatically connects in the Apple ecosystem.

But the actual intelligence, it's like not intelligent at all.

I mean, you can barely set an alarm on it, you know, it's like before it gets confused.

So, but of course, like companies are spending, Like, I mean, think about how much money these companies have spent on these devices and the networks and to run these things.

I mean, it's got to be billions of dollars.

And they just fundamentally don't do almost anything.