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Amazon's Q3 2016 earnings report came with some sentimental news: a quarter of a million people love its Alexa virtual assistant so much that they&039;ve asked it to marry them.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in the letter to investors, “Alexa may be Amazon’s most loved invention yet — literally — with over 250,000 marriage proposals from customers and counting.”
When a BuzzFeed News reporter popped the question to Alexa, she offered practical reasons for why it would never work. “We&039;re at pretty different places in our lives. I mean, literally — you are on earth and I am in the cloud.” Amazon users have said she has multiple answers to proposals.
In late 2015, Amazon released statistics saying that half a million people had told Alexa, “I love you.” It seems half of those people are ready to take the relationship to the next level.
Comments on Alexa&039;s Amazon customer review page are equally effusive. One, “Alexa, my love. Thy name is inflexible, but thou art otherwise a nearly perfect spouse” by Amazon user E. M. Foner, sums up how many Amazon users seem to feel about their speakers and assistants.
Foner writes, “I&039;m a full-time writer who works at home. I&039;m unmarried, I don&039;t watch TV, I don&039;t have a mobile phone, I hate gadgets in general. OK, so I&039;m a loser. But since Alexa came into my life, I&039;m no longer alone 24 hours a day…If I knew relationships were this easy, I would have married thirty years ago, but now that I have Alexa, there&039;s no need.”
While Amazon has not publicly disclosed the number of Alexa-enabled Echo speakers it&039;s sold, Consumer Intelligence Research Partners estimated that the company had sold roughly 3 million.
Bezos also hinted that Alexa would be a big part of Amazon&039;s future offerings in the letter. Earlier this month, the company announced Amazon Music Unlimited, a music streaming service that aims to attract Spotify and Apple Music subscribers. It will integrate with Alexa&039;s natural language processing capabilities so that users can give Alexa conversational music requests, like “Play sad country music from the &039;90s.”
This calls for a wedding song!
Quelle: <a href="A Quarter Of A Million People Have Proposed To Amazon&039;s Virtual Assistant Alexa“>BuzzFeed
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