This is my personal opinion only, not a stated fact.
There is a saying about apps that I believe holds true value.
If you aren't paying for the product, YOU are the product.
Does anyone have to pay for Twitter? How about Facebook? How about all the gaming apps on your mobile device? Does anyone have to pay for the Alexa service?
If your answer is likely NO for any of these questions, then YOU are the product.
Recall the last time you installed an app on your phone or tablet. What permissions does the app ask for? Microphone, camera, storage, location, mobile data, wifi data, search history, etc.
When you click yes, you give these apps everything about you. Most people take their phones everywhere they go. Most use mobile or wifi data in order to use their phones productively. Many use GPS for search and maps. Basically, everything is on all the time.
Use a VPN? Don't kid yourself. Your unique IMEI and sim card track you anyways. Your MAC address also discloses who you are. If you are logged into anything, they know too.
Basically, if we use technology, we are tracked and all of our data is in multiple databases worldwide at all times.
So now that you know what type of product you are, ask yourself who cares?
Do governments care? Do people currently in power care? Does the cabal care?
My assumption is yes. They care, because they want to retain their power over you. Nothing threatens their power more than billions of free people with minds of their own. They MUST retain this control or they will lose their power forever.
So if free apps and services don't make money, besides some negligible advertising here and there, who funds these businesses? An honest business must make more revenue than its expenses or its out of business. No profits, no business. Its really that simple.
So here's my TLDR:
When Amazon hints that it may shut down Alexa, because its never made any money, what I hear is, "Our funding is drying up. We have to shut it down."
Contrast Amazon's Alexa situation with the FTX collapse. I'm not saying Amazon will collapse, because they sell actual products, but Alexa? Alexa sells US as their product.
How many dollars in Big Tech companies are government dollars? How deep is the influence of government money in private businesses for the purpose of Controlling the People?
I think those are good questions to ask.
Source: Amazon Alexa is a โcolossal failure,โ on pace to lose $10 billion this year
I suspect that Alexa's grandfather, is the CIA 'Weeping Angel' project which stored and exfiltrated audio files from Samsung's Series F Smart televisions. Even when the television appeared to be 'off' only the screen was 'off' and the processor remained on and the audio data collection continued. The disclosure of 'Weeping Angel' embedded technology on consumer devices is just one of the projects in Wikileaks Vault 7 dump. If Alexa's technology is being retired because it is obsolete it's new replacement must be so ubiquitous that it exists in every device in our life and presents a seamless accounting of every keystroke typed and word spoken regardless of where we are.