Amazon Will Reportedly Start Charging Up To $10 a Month For Premium Alexa AI Features
Amazon is reportedly planning to release a newer, subscription-based version of Alexa with generative artificial intelligence support that will cost as much as $10 a month according to a report form The Verge., This was all first reported by Reuters last May. Alexa will still be free for the basic version you have now, but the newly upgraded version will offer conversational generative AI with a monthly fee.
Now The Wall Street Journal has said its sources think the new version of Alexa with a monthly fee could launch as soon as this month.
Where is all this money coming from? whatever happened to the one off payments to buy things. Now it is just ongoing forever charges. It's the new debt. The cost to live
It is like the eternal car payment. The subscription model is very profitable for busiensses.
Yes but it is getting beyond a joke these days. Everything is moving that way which is causing much of the inflation issues. Regulators focus on the wrong things. Sure we don't need to buy these things which is what they used to say about the internet, but soon we need to.
How are regulators going to fix this?
And keep in mind, people are often their own worst enemy. Take streaming services. Why do people have to have 5 or 6 of them?
Television has actually gotten cheaper in many areas, unless one needs to have access to everything.
Believe me, this is the question I asked my wife as I recently cancelled a few we don't use and didn't know we have. I was about to axe netflix but they have gotten better lately. Also subscription TV is now charging more for ad free and movies. Like wtf is the point of it all lol
The entertainment industry screwed themselves. There are so many free (with ads) apps like Tubi and PlutoTv that are gaining a ton of market share.
We are seeing the fragmentation of video. It is only going to keep expanding and prices models will change. I think that is the door for Web 3.0.
We don't have access to a lot of those things here in Australia. I think they are yet to expand. Our Netflix also has delayed screenings. I often have to use a VPN to watch shows as they're out in the US but not in Australia. Have no idea why they do that.