Zachary Cutlip on Nostr: Amazon sold a half billion[1] Trojan horses into households, workplaces, and other ...

Amazon sold a half billion[1] Trojan horses into households, workplaces, and other places around the world, and couldn’t make a profit off them

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/alexa-had-no-profit-timeline-cost-amazon-25-billion-in-4-years/

[1] Who knows how many Alexa devices are actually in use but even 1% of the number sold is still 5 million. Holy shit that’s a lot of microphones