Echo Dot Kids Edition — A smart speaker with Alexa for kids

“ The Echo Dot Kids Edition is the Amazon Kindle for children — get them hooked and committed early, and you'll own them for life. Amazon is creating a content moat around children with its FreeTime Unlimited subscription service. Alexa will be the first AI parent. If we were concerned about the loss of autonomy and free thought (or advertising annoyances) brought to us via the Facebook newsfeed, this is taking it up to an whole new level. It's not that there won't be positive aspects of this shift — only that they will be profound, for the better and the worse. ”
– Chris Messina

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