The only surprise in Amazon's Opening Alexa+ This week was a price. Due to the fact that inflation is unbridled and much more effective subscription services to a choice of $ 20 per month is an absolutely interfered price for the still unproven Ai Chatbot.
Recall that Alex historically cost nothing while you have hardware for launching it. The same applies to Google Assistant (and now the main version of Gemini), as well as Siri Apple. They have always been tools for improving equipment, not the product itself.
What is strange is that 20 dollars a month, that I will repeat obsessedIn fact, the false – equivalent inflated MSRPThe field and the reason I know is that the subscription for the whole ass on Prime costs 5 dollars a month lessand includes Alexa+You can read this one of two ways. Amazon believes that Alexa+ costs more than the integrity of Prime. Or, ridiculous prices are artificial speed growth to direct people to the Amazon ecosystem, and also encourages them to buy some equipment for an echo while they are in this. In some way the company accused of US And Europe Building the customer’s separation from their money has not yet tried this trick.
In a vacuum $ 20 for Alexa+, performs with some other services of artificial intelligence Premium – Catgpt Plus Openai and Advanced Google One Gemini both are the same. And Amazon does something, at least a little different, allowing the generative voice assistant AI to free in your smart house, as well as with the original Alexa. And I find the opportunity to build a library of loaded documents in the memory of alexa+intriguing, just as I would prefer that someone is the one who stores this information. But, despite some potentially useful functions, it is impossible to recommend spending such money on Alexa+ now, given that Amazon predictably crashed into some demonstrations in her presentation and hardly allowed the journalists at his event to really check it.
I do not think that Amazon expects tons of registrations at this monthly price for $ 20. In addition to pushing more people to subscribe to Prime, this wild price for Alexa+ Telegraph is a movement to increase the cost of Prime earlier than later. It was a little more than two years Since Amazon raised the price of Prime, we certainly have to drink again.
Of course, the company will indicate the “increased cost” of Prime during this time, and, frankly, you will receive a lot of dollar at the moment – provided that you want to continue spending more money on Amazon. And Alexa+, with its built -in ability to make a list of products and order it through Amazon Fresh or Whole Foods, penetrate this structure well. Vanilla alexa tendency to order regular, non-perishable goods from Amazon. Without users, not intending it – Will, of course, is tolerated.
My recommendation? Given the economy, just return, damn it, completely from this. There are many services that are more interesting or useful for your money. Advanced Plan Google Gemini is supplied with 2 TB of the disk storage and several other benefits. Or you can register on the Xbox Game Pass. Or blow your money for a couple of services on a streaming video and let #Content wash yourself when we slip into the abyss. At least, these options are not a portal for Amazon more than your hard money earned.