New Echo devices:
- Auto: invitation only, $25; control car's infotainment system
- Wall Clock: $30; Bluetooth for alarms & reminders
- Input: $35, add Alexa to existing speaker
- Sub: $130, subwoofer
- Link: $200, connect to home stereo
- Link Amp: $300, amplifier
- Dot: $50
- Plus: $150
- Show: $230, 10 inch HD screen, works with Ring doorbells, Skype for calls, Silk browser, Firefox, accompanying stand $30
- AmazonBasics Microwave: $60, with Dash Replenishment Services
- Amazon Smart Plug: $25
- Fire TV Recast: DVR, connects to Fire TV devices, with antenna for FTA TV; $230 for 2-tuner 500 GB version, $280 for 4-tuner 1 TB version
- Ring Stick Up Cam: $180, with Ring Alarm, wired or battery
- TIDAL & Amazon Music new release notifications
- Email management
- Step-by-step cooking
- Location-based routines
- Smart home and home monitoring: Alexa Guard (security), Hunches (experiments with emotional awareness), Local Voice Control
- FreeTime on Alexa features: Routines, podcasts, new skills
- Partners with Microsoft for Skype (voice & video, SkypeOut, Bing) and Alexa (on Xbox), integration of Alexa and Cortana
Other
- Launches Wi-Fi Simple Setup for smart home
Takeaways
- Growing CPE portfolio; next: TV? try the smartphone again?
- Focus on smart home (full vertical integration), first step to smart car; next: smart city?
- Intermediate devices to control legacy electronics
- Alexa to rule them all
- Microsoft (i.e. non-Google, non-Apple, non-Facebook) partnership for VoIP (Skype) and search (Bing)
