https://500ish.com/alexa-everywhere-eeee670a5f02

My post a couple days ago about the opportunity for Amazon Echo devices in hotels was actually meant to be a preamble for this post, which I started writing a couple weeks back after stumbling upon this crazy stat while reading The Economist:

At first glance, this is sort of shocking. But then, when you pause to actually think about it, it’s not. How often do you buy speakers? Maybe once a decade? Maybe if you move and/or redo your home entertainment setup? Amazon (and to a lesser extent, Google, Microsoft, and soon Apple) have given us all a reason to buy speakers again. And not just one — a number of them, to put all over our homes, offices, etc.¹