Mary, let me correct you on a few things here. Alexa has been in development for quite a few years and I find her to be very smart. Also, skills don't rely totally on the Alexa app. If you know what skill you want to enable, you can ask Alexa to enable it for you, thus not having to use the app so much.
Shawn Sent From My White MacBook Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs Skype username: bbstheblindrapper Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com > On Jun 5, 2017, at 5:15 PM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well, to be interesting, this speaker is going to have to sound a whole hell > of a lot better than anything Amazon has produced. That doesn't sound all > that great. I'm looking at this as a sort of a replacement for a regular > stereo system in a room that's not too large. $700 were really nice stereo > pair of bookshelf speakers isn't all that awful. Think about the higher and > bookshelf speakers like BMW. Or other high-end makers of speakers. If these > are in that class, then that's a whole different thing than what you get from > something like the echo, which sells for about half the price I guess, but > isn't all that special. It's also not all that smart, and the skills are, in > my opinion, a pain in the butt, because they are very reliant on the Alexa > app, plus you have to actually find them. It's not intuitive. So Apple could > do something good. But will they? > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jun 5, 2017, at 2:50 PM, lenron brown <lenro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I am not impressed with this speaker. Google home and echo are both >> already pretty nice and they are going for being smart. The Home pod >> seems to be geared towards music. Oh did I forget it's priced more >> than I am willing to pay. $350 wow really apple. Now the new mac Pro >> seems to be pretty powerful. I don't need anything that pricy but if I >> had the cash I would maybe consider. Duel booting one of those babies >> and calling it a day. Sad times about the keyboard though. I am not a >> fan of the new keyboards. >> >>> On 6/5/17, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I think the new home speaker could be interesting, especially as a stereo >>> pair, if the sound is really good, and if Apple gets his act together with >>> Siri. It's clearly way behind google at this point. The idea that this new >>> speaker will be smart enough to know where it is in a room and adjust its >>> output accordingly is interesting. I am not the least bit interested in the >>> Mac pro, iMac Pro. The price is absurd for anything I would want. I'm >>> disappointed about the mini not getting refreshed, but not surprised. And I >>> think the new stuff for the iPad in iOS 11 has really good potential, >>> although I will be curious to see how it all works with voiceover. I was >>> excited about the announcement of a new Bluetooth keyboard and that includes >>> the number pad, only to be disappointed when I realized it has the same >>> awful feel as all of the new notebook keyboards that Apple has been >>> producing. No key travel to speak up and no spacing between the keys. No >>> thank you. Why oh why can't they make a keyboard that really works well for >>> touch typist? That is after all, who does most of the serious typing in the >>> world. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>> On Jun 5, 2017, at 1:38 PM, Scott Granados <scott.grana...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> So what does everyone think of the announcements. >>>> >>>> Personally, I’m going to leave the home speaker on the store shelf but the >>>> new iMac Pro is calling my name. Being able to have 18 cores and 128 GB >>>> of RAM as well s 16 GB of video memory is pretty hot. 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