How much excitement can one tech product – the voice-activated Amazon Echo and its smaller siblings Echo Dot and Tap – generate before the don't-believe-the-hype syndrome also sets in?
Thanks to a gangbuster holiday season, the installed base of Amazon's smart home "virtual assistant" speakers, which answer to the wake-up call "Alexa," then do your vocal bidding, has risen to more than 8.2 million units (up from 5 million just a few months prior), reported Consumer Intelligence Research Partners.
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