Amazon's Alexa Can't Know Everything, But It Can Go Everywhere

On Thursday, Amazon introduced nearly a dozen new Alexa-powered products to the world. Some, like this year's Echo Dot, were standard upgrades to familiar products. But in the bulk of the newcomers you could see the full payoff of Amazon's longstanding strategy to put Alexa in more than just speakers. Which is exactly where it needs to be if it wants to stay ahead of Google. Products like the Echo Wall Clock and AmazonBasics Microwave--both of which connect to Echo speakers over Bluetooth--elicited jokes, mostly Kellyann Conway-related.