Alexa Plus: Better at Home, Not Ready to Run My Life
Key Takeaways
- Alexa Plus excels at smart home control, routines, and kitchen tasks.
- Intrusive full-screen ads on Echo Show displays ruin the user experience.
- Personal assistant features feel underbaked and unreliable at times.
- Echo Dot Max is recommended for users wanting to avoid daily advertisements.
After a year of testing Amazon's AI-powered Alexa Plus, the assistant proves to be remarkably capable at managing smart home tasks, routines, and kitchen assistance. Its memory features can even create touching photo montages from family albums. However, the experience is hindered by intrusive advertisements on smart displays and underbaked personal assistant capabilities. While hardware like the Echo Dot Max avoids ads, the overall software still struggles to transition from a home device to a true life manager.
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