I recently got an Amazon Dash (Echo) and I'm messing around with Alexa. While there are a lot of great things about it, and I'm having fun as a developer creating, I'm interested to see what your perspective is for mainstream people.

I saw this article on wired:

You can tease me if you want: I use Siri and I'm interested in Alexa, and I'm sure many of you would never want to use these things. 

But I'm interested in the advantages and disadvantages of stuff like Alexa and Google Home. I'd love to hold a little workshop on it sometime, maybe after a meeting in January.

Any opinions?