Amazon’s extensive Echo ecosystem helped bring its Alexa smart assistant into many homes, but not every Echo product was a success story.
For the past decade, Amazon has aspired for Alexa to be more than just a convenient way to start a cooking timer. To convince consumers of the smart assistant’s potential, the company has reinvented its Echo line again and again. From fashion-critiquing cameras to microwaves you can ask to make popcorn, Echo’s repeated renaissance has often felt wildly experimental in a way that hasn’t always clicked with consumers.
Should Amazon resurrect it? No, there are now better smart home solutions. Echo Wall Clock The Echo Wall Clock, announced in 2018, lacked a microphone and was instead designed to be an accessory for Echo smart speakers that displayed the current time and the progress of running timers using a ring of LEDs. Amazon later partnered with Disney for a Mickey Mouse version of the clock, while Citizen introduced alternate designs.
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