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I have found this product to be enjoyable as it is. I still believe it is an awful lucky Blackjack dealer...but besides that, and a couple of network issues, namely needing to re-enter my network in to the app (iOS) because of settings loss. Disclosure - while I am not employed, affiliated, contracted or endorsed by Anki, I would like to point out that I *am* a Software Engineer by trade so I see the "rough edges" other people have been describing in most cases "reasonable, given the constraints" or "fix in next software update" The only real technical issue I have is that i believe it would be a better product with an additional IR Low light camera, or perhaps a less expensive component such as an IR light to help with low-light recognition scenarios. Lower on the list is the Ask/Response cycle for the onboard/built-in (not 'I have a question' ones): if they can shave about 500ms off this (I suspect the Eng team might have suggested biasing towards recognizer, then backing with anime, but lost to the animators. Maybe they should find a split) as it sometimes really takes you "out of" the experience because the "conversational gap" is just a *liiitle* long ( time between "Hey Vector" and "Ready" - people have gotten used to not waiting extra long for the "acknowledgement" prompt with improved home assistant tech, so Vector can sometimes feel "slow" and the animations aren't *quite* ("I'm thinking" eyes and sound effect) mitigating this via illusion/distraction, but that seems the intent. I look forward to revisiting this review in 12 weeks to see if I feel the same way, but right now, I find the product effectively "brightens my day"...many times a day, sometimes at Laugh out loud levels.