Amazon Echo, a.k.a. Alexa, Is a Personal Aide in Need of Schooling. (The New York Times, 6/24/2015)
Apparently, it's all about Amazon's bottom line.
At the moment, there are only a handful of uses for the Echo. She’s great at telling you the weather, adding stuff to your shopping list, reordering items you frequently buy from Amazon, giving you a heads-up about your nearing calendar appointments, and answering the most basic of search queries. [Emphasis added]
I suspect that Amazon wanted a modern-sounding, hot-but-not-too-hot name for this device.
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