Amazon announces it's acquiring mesh WiFi company eero to make it easier for customers to set up and connect their smart home devices
not hard to imagine a world where Alexa is baked into Eero in the future. http://press.aboutamazon.com/ ... http://twitter.com/... Jay Peters / @jaypeters : @Techmeme This buy makes a crazy amount of sense for Amazon. Wonder if there will be an Alexa-powered router? “Alexa, what's my download speed?” Geoffrey A. Fowler / @geoffreyfowler : Amazon is buying @geteero, my favorite mesh Wi-fi router. Makes a lot of sense: elegant hardware design + a service business. Let's just hope they don't mess it up. That's a lot more consumer data going into Amazon's hands. http://press.aboutamazon.com/ ... Brandon LeBlanc / @brandonleblanc : I use Eero and I am not sure how I feel about this. Actually, it bothers me more than not. I want my router to be independent from all the other smart things to keep me protected. I may be on the market for switching to a new product. http://twitter.com/... Guilherme Rambo / @_inside : I wonder what this means for the privacy of Eero users. http://twitter.com/... John Sheehan / @johnsheehan : This makes a ton of sense. With Alexa, Ring, and Blink they're building quite a smart home platform. They should get Wink too. eero is such a good product. I hope they don't ruin it. http://twitter.com/... Shira Ovide / @shiraovide : So Amazon now has its own brand of: *Voice activated speakers/video phones *Connected TVs *Connected home doorbells & lights (Ring) *Home security cameras (Blink) *WiFi router company (eero) Raj Nijjer / @rajnijjer : Interesting acquisition by amazon w.r.t. voice implications, hopefully a good return for initial @geteero investors @hunterwalk @alexohanian http://twitter.com/... Owen Williams / @ow : 2019: Google and Amazon make the best routers in the industry. Somehow, Apple isn't even playing. Not really what I expected to happen.http://www.theverge.com/ ... Tom Warren / @tomwarren : Amazon is increasingly taking over the home. It has Echo devices, Alexa-enabled hardware, Fire TVs, doorbells, security cameras, and now routers! http://twitter.com/...