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I have had an Echo since the Beta testing phase. I hate the thing so bad. It never gets request right, unless its my 5 year old niece asking how many legs a cow has. It never gets music request right from my playlist. It never answers the most basic questions, like "what time is it?" It just gives the default Da Donk or "I'm sorry I don't understand the question". I speak English as spoken in the southern USA, not some weird garbled variation as a 3rd or 4th language. I understand meta tags used in the process by the programs fetching the information served up by the Echo. This thing makes me so freaking mad, it is the bane of my existence.The voice recognition algorithms, and whatever form of predictive Ai is being used, needs to be refined before they clutter the OS up with more useless features. They need to get what they have functional. Did I mention that I hate this freaking thing so very very bad and wish I had never bought it. An example is if I want to play some music from my Amazon Playlist (Frank Sinatra), I cant say "Alexa please play Frank Sinatra from my playlist" and have it work. NO OH NO no no no no!!!! You have to say "Alexa my playlist play Frank Sinatra play my playlist play". Any other variation of wording will get Da Donk or some other music like the Beatles, or Seasick Steve. Both of which I like but did not ask for! Natural sentence structure is not usable with this device. You cant ask " Alexa what is the weather for tomorrow?" Nope you have to say "Alexa, weather my location weather forecast weather weather tomorrow" Who the crap programs the fool thing to require this type of syntax? Seriously? Jeff Bezos should be ashamed to have put out such a poor device and backed it up with an absolutely nightmare piece of programing. My opinion is unless you are a cryptographer with the patience of a saint you should run screaming in the other direction instead of buying this device. A potato would work better. Digging out your own spleen with a dull spoon is a more rewarding experience.