Are people upvoting because it's from Wozniak, or because Wozniak has a good track record for these sorts of predictions? As a reminder, these are some of the related things he's said:<p>> 2012: Steve Wozniak tells Gina Smith, Todd Moore and Dan Patterson why he thinks the latest Windows 7 Mango makes his Nokia Lumia smartphone “beautiful and amazingly designed.” - <a href="http://anewdomain.net/2012/04/26/apple-founder-inventor-steve-wozniak-why-i-love-my-windows-phone-7-5-fan/" rel="nofollow">http://anewdomain.net/2012/04/26/apple-founder-inventor-stev...</a><p>> 2008: I begin to wonder whether he was even briefed by the Apple press office when he predicts the imminent death of the company's most popular product, the iPod. ... Mr Wozniak even speaks out against the iPhone 3G, Apple's latest cult product which caused pandemonium in the West End when it was launched in Apple's Regent Street store this summer. - <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/3145691/Steve-Wozniak-interview-iconic-co-founder-on-the-iPod-iPhone-and-future-for-Apple.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnol...</a><p>> 2012: Steve Wozniak predicts 'horrible problems' with cloud computing ... "I really worry about everything going to the cloud," he said. "I think it's going to be horrendous. I think there are going to be a lot of horrible problems in the next five years." - <a href="http://www.news.com.au/technology/apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-has-predicted-horrible-problems-with-cloud-computing/story-e6frfro0-1226443447897" rel="nofollow">http://www.news.com.au/technology/apple-co-founder-steve-woz...</a><p>(And now he likes the cloud-based Amazon Echo?)
I bought an Echo because I received a $40 off, one day only, sales email from Amazon.<p>I enjoyed writing a simple "Skill" using the Echo SDK but as far as using the Echo, I rarely do. I use it perhaps once or twice a week for an average of 15 minutes each time. My wife uses it slightly more often.<p>Echo is a good product, but I usually have an iPad or my Android phone with me, and I end up preferring to use those.<p>Hearing Woz's comments though, I think that I need to give it another try.
I largely agree. We got one in October and use it every day. The sonos devices now gather dust.<p>Now we have expanded to 8-10 more use cases largely due to the integration with IFTTTHE.<p>e.g. It took 5 minutes to set up my niece's echo in Boston to automatically trigger a remote treat dispenser I built in SF and return a video to her phone. It was cool enough to impress an 13 year old girl, which is a high bar