Mayayana wrote:
"Paul" wrote

| It's like selling a car with engine and wheels and no drive train.
| Where you roll down the windows and pretend you're on vacation,
| with the breeze blowing in your face and so on.
|

But on the bright side, you can ask Cortana to
order pizza. Then an Amazon drone will fly it to your
car window. Probably for under $30 plus shipping.
OK, it will be cold and oddly cardboardish, but it's
pizza delivered to your hand. That's futuristic. It
doesn't have to taste good.

And... have you seen Cortana? She's a beautiful
young woman who just won a wet t-shirt contest.

It's just a circle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortana

Since I don't leave microphones connected to the computer,
really Cortana has next to nothing to do. I don't think
I've even received a gratuitous weather report yet. Let
alone a cardboard pizza.

At least this idea has led to a never ending line of
speakers with LEDs. This one, for example, has *seven*
microphones and uses beam forming. If they'd shaped
it a bit better, it could have made a dandy ashtray.

https://www.wired.com/review/review-...-with-cortana/

That's on my long list of "things you won't see at my house".
That goes on the list with the X10 and Hue Lightbulbs.

[A $20 lightbulb, that needs yet another box to turn it on and off.]

https://www.homedepot.ca/en/home/p.1000847539.html

Paul