hello everyone thanks for tuning in again you saw a couple of weeks ago I
put out a 5 reasons to buy a Google home mini I'm going to give you today five
reasons to go out and buy this new generation the third generation Amazon
Echo Dot let's get going so the first reason to go buy an Amazon Echo Dot this
year is simply put home automation Amazon is tops in the world they're
ahead of Google in terms of home automation they can connect to over
20,000 different products and services today the other reason that I say
they're ahead of everyone else is their capability of routines now we've seen
the capabilities get better and better within routines and they're ahead of
Google and Apple at this point and they're now I would say even with
Samsung in terms of functionality as well and and Samsung is really really
focused on the ability to trigger automation based on other events
happening but now the Amazon Echo Dot is capable of having any device in the home
that triggers an event or shows motion or what-have-you
now you can trigger a routine with that so that makes it incredibly powerful the
inclusion of the Echo Buttons now to trigger routines is another nice little
feature here and those are relatively inexpensive so the next reason I would
give you to go purchase one of these this year the skills store is as far as
I'm concerned the new Apple App Store of the smart home or home automation world
and it's amazing to think like that that someone was able to create another
marketplace that is going to be just as powerful and impactful as Apple's App
Store has been over the years so what we're seeing is a massive massive amount
of people and companies that are going in creating skills right now and the
functionality and capabilities are leapfrogging ahead of each other every
month here we're seeing new capabilities and new services being added you know
you could do everything right now from go ahead and bank to you know find out
about stocks from a different service all that financial capabilities there
you can have story time with your children it's it's all that that breadth
of skills out there today and that's just a few you know I would say a couple
of years really into this whole ecosystem with the Echo Dot now the
third reason to go buy one of these Echo Dots this year simply put that's a $50
speaker and you know I said this about the Google home many go back three or
four years go back five years and ask yourself what you would have got for $50
this speaker is excellent now there's there's no other - there's no other way
to say it here the Echo Dot - was not a good speaker it
it didn't sound good it was hollow it was I don't know I don't want to call it
garbage but it was almost garbage and this speaker is excellent and is an
actual listening speaker that I can sit and play music off of and that's saying
a lot coming from that second generation device that I would not use without the
auxiliary port in the back connected to something else or connecting it to
another Bluetooth speaker so you know for $50 what you're getting here and
what you would have got years ago for that same $50 this is so far ahead of
what you would have been able to purchase and the speaker itself is now
definitely good enough to warrant the price tag
the second last thing I want to tell you about it's going to be a little bit
controversial for people so you know bear with me here but what I see coming
here and what's already capable is the ability to purchase almost anything off
of Amazon now Google's gone ahead they've created a similar service on
their device but quite frankly we're not talking about Amazon here when we're
talking about a Google home Mini so you know talking about what you can purchase
from an Amazon Echo Dot and then if you think about kind of the the Amazon Key
service the ability to connect your door lock to that package delivery you
literally today can purchase a package from Amazon with your voice and have it
delivered inside your home and sitting inside your home when you come home not
lifting a finger anywhere else in that process and that's a pretty amazing
capability obviously Amazon's making money from doing that but the fact that
they could bring you whatever you need and and you don't have to do a thing is
pretty incredible and to me although like I said it's going to be a little
controversial for people the fact that they can buy with their voice and the
fact that they can't always choose exactly which product they want that
capability is going to improve over time yes Amazon wants to sell you certain
things but over time I have to believe that they want to give you access to the
entire library over time and you know the Echo Show I think is a device and
from what I've seen even on the Fire tablet I've seen this movement to
allowing you to purchase almost everything already so in the in the
coming years honestly that capability is going to be huge for people and it will
automate your life almost entirely in terms of purchases on a similar thread
is the last might have and it's probably the biggest
item you saved the best for last you know so the Echo Dot and its ecosystem
in the whole Echo ecosystem is ever expanding and again this might be a
little controversial for people because it can be a little confusing to navigate
what Amazon has put out and you know this year I think the number was 21 new
devices that they put out on the market and people always talk about the
microwave like that's a crazy kind of device but some people might want that
and the thing that you're going to have when you have one of these in your home
is choice you're going to have a choice in terms of all these different types of
devices that will be compatible with this system and Amazon is continuing to
build that out further and further and further and if I just look at the last
few months a clock on the wall can be connected your you have any speaker in
the home that will be connected you can connect your vehicle and and your
microwave you can have a full theater system with the Echo Sub and other
devices other Echo devices and that's just this year so you're going to have
the ability I have to assume to buy any appliance and have it be directly
integrated with this if not one of these devices also so you know the the other
part of this growing ecosystem is clearly what's going on with Microsoft
and Amazon is very very good this is something that I think they're better
than Google at they're very good at building business relationships and
business relationships that work and the Microsoft partnership is already showing
a massive win for Amazon the Microsoft is now selling Echo Dots in their stores
I don't know what's going on with Microsoft but that's what they're doing
and Cortana is clearly dead as of the voice assistant here from
Amazon so we've seen this ecosystem grow by leaps and bounds and Amazon is doing
it through business means as well through things like this partnership
with Microsoft and other partnerships with developers and their developer
network and funding developers they're doing incredible things so you're never
going to be short of compatible devices with this and the other thing is even
that Echo Dot - that I told you I didn't love so much here it was it still is
compatible with almost everything in the whole Amazon system so there's a few
things it's not compatible with we're not going to see it really connecting
with the Echo Sub which would be kind of funny anyways but you know there's gonna
be a few things that falls behind on but in general they're keeping it up to date
all right now there you go those are my five reasons that you go out and you buy
one of these this year what do you guys think though you know have I overstated
something is there something I've missed entirely that you think puts Amazon way
ahead of say competitors like Google and Apple and you know even Samsung I put
Samsung in this box because of the home automation capabilities here so you know
is there something I'm missing go ahead leave that in the comments below or does
this trick or you to go out and purchase one of these devices let me know I mean
I I have links down below of course they are affiliate links so please do click
them I make a little money if you go and you buy one of these now so anyways guys
thanks everyone for watching and we'll see you next time