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Amazon Makes Itself at Home
The Echo leads the way to turning on your lights, locking your doors and taking you shopping. You know where.
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For decades, the technology industry has been chasing a white whale: Becoming the operating system for the home. No one has harpooned the beast yet, but stunningly Amazon may be coming the closest.
Everyone wants to be the digital brain at the center of our automated homes. Just as Microsoft's Windows became the software nervous system of nearly all personal computers, the thinking goes, some company will eventually become the Windows of the home. It will rule everything, from automatically recording a TV show to remotely unlocking the front door for a handyman.