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I have a first gen echo and generally it has gotten better over time.

In the early years I couldn’t control the Phillips hue lights in my home, and then one year suddenly I could thanks to updates.

Most companies would have abandoned hardware this old.



The hardware is just a microphone, a speaker, a tiny computer, and a WiFi chip. It's easy to keep providing updates for old hardware when all the brains live in the cloud.


home automation is what makes the product stick in many cases




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