[xnyan]

>Do you honestly not see an obvious difference between a phone and an Amazon wired device intended to record and remotely analyze what's happening in the room?

Do you honestly not see that there's no fundamental difference between the two? A CPU, ram, storage, wireless modems, microphones and a battery all running under software we don't control.

As far as intent, it's not possible to be sure about intent, you have to judge based on the information we have which is the features and capabilities of the device.