You know that clip of Steve Carell from The Office where he’s shouting “No, God! No, God, please no! No! No! Nooooooooo!” That’s how I feel about Amazon’s announcement that it’s adding a new service to Alexa for landlords. It’s called Alexa for Residential that, according to Amazon, “makes it...

The surveillance + landlord thing is triggering me

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Exactly what concerns me. It's a messy market that is fully of small private local businesses that is ripe for a tech "disruptive product" to lay waste to it all and turn it all into 1-3 mega companies. That's the formula for recognising markets where these kinds of disruptive products can work.