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Grumpy Old Geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason DeFilippo

discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo.

And I'm Brian Schulmeister. How about a little follow up?

So for some reason I continue to follow what's going on with the Amazon Alexa, particularly their

skills. We've made fun of them repeatedly for a number of reasons. First off, most of them are

useless. Second off, good luck finding anything. Third, good luck remembering what the hell the

command is to turn anything on or off anyways. All the various issues that we have with the Alexa,

but they are finally addressing the one thing that I had been hoping for, which is the ability to

control all your media. Now you and I have both explored using third party systems, all of which

have sucked and not worked correctly, but they've now opened up basically the development capabilities

for people to do so. And one assumes companies like Sony are already getting in there to create

skills to enable hands free control of their devices. So hopefully everybody else will get on board

and we won't need the crappy third party stuff and we'll be able to just download and update for

our TV and all of a sudden we can finally control our damn TVs. Yeah, it seems nice like you'd be

able to set a default for you know, okay, turn on the TV. It will know which TV it's going to use.

Yes, that would be very nice because that little blumpy device that you had me buys in a box

somewhere now because it barely worked. So is mine. It was a piece of crap. So yeah, so they finally

opened up what they're calling the smart home skill API. So hopefully all these companies that actually

know how to deal with their own systems will get on it and release updates for us. Yeah, I noticed

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