I Hate How Much I Like Amazon’s Echo Wall Clock
Kitchen timers have to be the single most common use-case for Echo smart speakers, and yet, they’re terrible at them! If your Echo doesn’t have a screen, and you want to find out how much time is left on your timers, you either have to ask your speaker verbally, a painfully slow process with a high failure rate, or check the Alexa app, which inexplicably buries your timers behind multiple taps and menus. The only explanation for this UX is that Amazon wants to annoy you into buying an Echo Wall ClockGIF: Shep McAllister So Amazon largely created this problem, and lo and behold, will now sell...
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