re: Echo Dot the most useless thing ever invented? ETA CAD giving it another go

Screw that, Alexa is awesome. We got one for Christmas too. Set it up on New Years Eve.

One of the first questions I asked was "Surely you can't be serious?", and she responded "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley". I was sold.

Also, when I was a few bottles of wine deep and my wife had gone to bed, it was just me and Alexa hanging out (what an exciting new years ).

In reality, it has minimal uses. Like instead of whipping out my phone to look up random trivia, now I just ask it out lout. Or I check the weather without pulling my phone out of my pocket. Ordering paper towels and stuff is "easier" too. It was free (gift), costs me nothing to operate, and is a novelty that doesn't take up much space and hooks up to my stereo system to play Pandora.