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I bet that’s at cost tbh. You’d be surprised how cheap things have gotten. However, r&d and every single Alexa request costs money. So from day one, it’s losing

I bet that’s at cost tbh. You’d be surprised how cheap things have gotten. However, r&d and every single Alexa request costs money. So from day one, it’s losing money.

h4n1 4y ago
How much are two hundred million microphones in earshot of private conversations worth?
- rapnie 4y ago
  One Zuckerberg.
- RHSman2 4y ago
  This
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]
- ben_w 4y ago
  Demonstrably very little, at least with regard to $€¥.
  - rchaud 4y ago
    Maybe right now it's value is $0. Think bigger picture. Imagine a panopticon spanning Ring.com camera networks and voice recordings telling you what's going on inside, with AI providing automated summaries of recent conversations. All delivered end-to-end by Amazon!
- tiahura 4y ago
  Apparently -$10,000,000,000.00.
- Hellion 4y ago
  While I believe that this is actually a simmering threat to society, I have a lot of trust that the current slew of devices are not eavesdropping on you. I believe smartphones to be a much bigger threat. I’m more worried about smart phones acclimating people go carrying tracking and microphones. But, we find those tools indispensable now, so instead, we seem to want to focus on smart speakers
sokoloff 4y ago
It’s got to be at least $5-7 to take my payment, pick, pack, and deliver it.
- michaelt 4y ago
  I can get a wifi-enabled microcontroller delivered from China for $3.40 [1] including payment, picking, packing and delivery. And the product is at least $1 of that price. I find it hard to believe Amazon is spending more than $2 on payment and delivery. [1] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004563128378.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004563128378.html
  - sokoloff 4y ago
    Can you get it the next day/day after? Speed has a value and locality has a cost.
  - adrr 4y ago
    Amazon puts good components in their Echos. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Amazon-Echo-teardown-shows-sharp-reduction-of-component-costs https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Amazon-Echo-tear...
  - HDThoreaun 4y ago
    China subsidizes mail to the US. Amazon has to pay for all their logistics without government support.

I bet that’s at cost tbh. You’d be surprised how cheap things have gotten. However, r&d and every single Alexa request costs money. So from day one, it’s losing money.

h4n1 4y ago

How much are two hundred million microphones in earshot of private conversations worth?

rapnie 4y ago
One Zuckerberg.
RHSman2 4y ago
This
deleted 4y ago
[deleted]
ben_w 4y ago
Demonstrably very little, at least with regard to $€¥.
- rchaud 4y ago
  Maybe right now it's value is $0. Think bigger picture. Imagine a panopticon spanning Ring.com camera networks and voice recordings telling you what's going on inside, with AI providing automated summaries of recent conversations. All delivered end-to-end by Amazon!
tiahura 4y ago
Apparently -$10,000,000,000.00.
Hellion 4y ago
While I believe that this is actually a simmering threat to society, I have a lot of trust that the current slew of devices are not eavesdropping on you. I believe smartphones to be a much bigger threat. I’m more worried about smart phones acclimating people go carrying tracking and microphones. But, we find those tools indispensable now, so instead, we seem to want to focus on smart speakers

sokoloff 4y ago

It’s got to be at least $5-7 to take my payment, pick, pack, and deliver it.

michaelt 4y ago
I can get a wifi-enabled microcontroller delivered from China for $3.40 [1] including payment, picking, packing and delivery. And the product is at least $1 of that price. I find it hard to believe Amazon is spending more than $2 on payment and delivery. [1] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004563128378.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004563128378.html
- sokoloff 4y ago
  Can you get it the next day/day after? Speed has a value and locality has a cost.
- adrr 4y ago
  Amazon puts good components in their Echos. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Amazon-Echo-teardown-shows-sharp-reduction-of-component-costs https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Amazon-Echo-tear...
- HDThoreaun 4y ago
  China subsidizes mail to the US. Amazon has to pay for all their logistics without government support.