An Amazon Echo owner has taken to social media to complain about their smart speakers, saying that the hardware is using too much data even when it’s mostly unused. Dave W. Plummer, who helped develop the Windows Task Manager and ported Space Cadet Pinball to Windows, posted on X saying that his two Amazon Echo Show devices, which he said he “never” uses, exceeded 4 GB of data usage in 24 hours.
Now that I’ve read it, my question stands.
The guy reporting the issue is a pretty well respected tech YouTuber who helped invent Microsoft Task Manager, so I feel like he’d know to check for that, but it was never explicitly mentioned.
Hopefully he figures it out and does a follow up, I’m curious now.
Based on some of the gray beards I know; doing something cool with technology 30+ years ago doesn’t necessarily translate to continued tech literacy.