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Title: How compatible is the Amazon Echo with an iPhone?
Post by: HCK on March 30, 2017, 04:05:22 pm
How compatible is the Amazon Echo with an iPhone?

If you have an Apple household, can your iPhone co-exist with an Amazon Echo or Dot? Absolutely!

After years of side-eyeing Amazon's smart assistants, the Echo and Dot, I picked them up late in 2016. I put off the purchase largely because I was hoping for an Apple-inspired solution — an Apple TV you could give voice commands to, or a new AirPort base station with integrated Siri assistant.

But no luck for me — if Apple's working on non-iPhone assistant technology, it's still hidden deep within Infinite Loop's various testing labs. So, what the heck: I decided to give the Echo a shot.

Not my first third-party rodeo

Amazon's ecosystem isn't my first non-Apple venture: After outfitting my house with Sonos speakers, I quickly had to get used to the idea of using a third-party app to control certain aspects of my home. To be honest, it wasn't all that different from using the Remote app to control my Apple TV, or the Hue app for my Hue lights.

As much as the iPh...

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