Enhancing the Echo Line

Amazon Introduces Echo Pop, Echo Show 5 3rd Gen, and Echo Show 5 Kids

- Michael Heiss

It doesn't feel like it was all that long ago when a business colleague called to tell me about this interesting new device that Amazon had developed. "It sits on your desk, and you tell it to control devices, ask it questions on a wide range of subjects and get a decent answer, have it play music, and do a wide range of other things from reading your schedule or keeping a kitchen timer."

The idea of doing all of that with one device was interesting. I bought one, and in the eight years since, more than half a billion Echo devices have followed suit into consumers' homes across the globe.