[ratg13]

I have a first gen echo and generally it has gotten better over time.

In the early years I couldn’t control the Phillips hue lights in my home, and then one year suddenly I could thanks to updates.

Most companies would have abandoned hardware this old.

[lolinder]

The hardware is just a microphone, a speaker, a tiny computer, and a WiFi chip. It's easy to keep providing updates for old hardware when all the brains live in the cloud.

[nextworddev]

home automation is what makes the product stick in many cases