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

I have gotten both an Echo and Dot gifted to me since October.

I put the portable battery to make the Echo wireless. This is what I use it for:

* Flash Briefing in the AM: Weather Report, Traffic, Top News, Local News, etc. All divided into little snippets. Helps me organize my day.

* Playing Spotify playlists in the kitchen & bathroom as my surround is not in those rooms and when I don't feel like playing vinyl overhead. Speaker is really good in the Echo. We use this feature a lot.

* Timers in the kitchen / Alarms / etc.

So far the Dot is on my bedside and is used for:

* Sleep Sounds & White Noise

* Alarm Clock

That's about it. I don't order consumables on Amazon so I am not using that feature. It seems very easy to tie in smart devices, if I had more light bulbs etc to make it worthwhile that would be a cool feature to voice activate (ceiling fan, lights, etc).

Neither device is a game changer, but the wireless Echo gets used daily in place of a bluetooth speaker / phone combo.