zroger73

78Bandit said:

I recall a large company (I think it was Ford) in the early days of the Internet suing the person who had ford.com registered.  Turned out the guys name was actually Ford and he wasn't in any kind of trademark violation.  The company eventually bought the domain for what I assume was a hefty payday for the anonymous Mr. Ford.

I remember when you had to go to fordvehicles.com instead of ford.com.

I also remember sitting in front of my home-built desktop computer running Windows 95 and dialing up to access the internet using my 28.8kbps modem. I opened Netscape Navigator and typed in "http://www.nissan.com" expecting to see cars. Instead, I saw the following web page:

http://www.nissan.com/

The legal battle over this domain name has been going on for two decades. It still doesn't belong to the car company.

eskaric said:

Echo is discounted on Amazon already. Dot by 40% and 2nd generation by 20%. If it was selling so well, why would they discount it around the holidays. Something doesn't add up.

Amazon is willing to lose money on the devices to get them in as many households as possible so they'll pay off in the long term with additional orders and subscriptions. Also, the data collected by these devices is extremely valuable. Amazon could easily pay people to use these devices or give them away and they'd still make money, but doing so would make the average person question Amazon's true motivation.

rogifan_new said:

zroger73 said:

For Apple's sake, they better have a significantly superior product to overcome the popularity Amazon's Echo has gained.

The echo is cheap. I’m sure a lot of purchases are people just trying it out because the cost of entry is low. But is this the next big thing or is it another cheap fitness tracker that gets shoved in a drawer after a few months?

With the exception of my mom who doesn't understand most of the capabilities and/or forgets that she has one, the rest of my friends and family members have been very pleased with the performance and usefulness of their Echo devices (myself included).

For Apple's sake, they better have a significantly superior product to overcome the popularity Amazon's Echo has gained.

I say Apple should remove the throttling feature. I wanna see how many more people start complaining about unexpected shutdowns and decreased usage times.