The days of kids having a digital clock radio in their bedroom to use as an alarm clock and listen to their favorite radio station are long gone. They now apparently have Echo Dots. As a high school teacher I know than many high school students no longer know how to read an analog clock. Soon I think the digital clock will be gone as well. We will just ask our devices what time it is. Amazon is making it really easy to fill up your house with these Echo devices. Lowering the price on the 3rd generation Echo dot to $30 for the holidays was a smart move. I am sure they converted a lot more customers into their ecosystem as well as got many more existing customers to purchase more devices.
Interestingly, this is the first Echo Dot device that I have purchased, I have a 1st generation Echo Show that I am pretty happy with. The Echo dot had been reviewed ad-nauseum so there is probably not much I can add here. It looks a lot nicer than the previous generation and the sound output seems pretty good for a device its size. Won't come close to teh sound of Sonos speakers obviously. The external speaker jack is interesting and something I may experiment with although I am invested in Sonos speakers so I probably won't go too far down that path.
My only complaint has to do with the echo device integration with Sonos speakers. Every time you say the wake word to any Echo device all Sonos speakers in my house are muted. So my daughter was playing a game on her Echo and all of our Sonos speakers that were playing music muted while the was talking to her Echo. I think it does that so that the Echo devices can hear more clearly but it really causes an seemingly unnecessary interruption. Something I may have to look into a workaround for.
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