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> At least Siri doesn't pester you to buy various things or to use it for additional purposes like Alexa does as far as I know.

I was pretty happy with Alexa until they started that crap. Retired it immediately. Now I only have a HomePod but even on this I have Siri disabled.

Amazon screwed the reputation of the voice robots for everyone

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> Amazon screwed the reputation of the voice robots for everyone

I don't think amazon screwed the reputation of anyone's assistant but their own. Plenty of people I know use voice assistants at home, none use Alexa.

Voice assistants are genuinely useful for some scenarios, especially in the smart home space.

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