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Amazon buys Roomba, non-watch wearables, and the best cheap(er) phones
The Vergecast
The Ambiant Computing Side of the Amazon Echo Speakers
i think amazon has been alkingabout this for a long time as one of its main goals. It seems like it's less interested in, like, the smart home as a thing and more in the smart home is like an avenue to this kind of big, ambiant computing vision that we've talked abunch about before. Why amazon like this? I've coming back to this over and over, like, amazon fundamentally wants to sell me stop freight. And you can draw a straight line from everything it makes to making it easier for people to buy stuff. But i have a harder time drawing that straight line why they want to do it.
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