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They thought people would be like "Alexa, but me a ton of shit on Amazon" but people just use it for timers and the weather
"Alexa, release the Roombas"
30 roombas make their way out from under my bed
Yeah, can you imagine trusting that thing to buy stuff for you? Bit scary, actually.
They had those "re-order product" physical buttons for a while which you were supposed to glue to your washing machine so you could reorder when your detergent ran out.
Besides legal issues (at least over here all they could do is put things in your shopping cart) apparently the primary customers of those buttons were hardware hackers, turning them into all kinds of stuff.