stackyFACTSYour favorite eavesdropping digital assistant almost sounded like a weather radar.
Your favorite eavesdropping digital assistant almost sounded like a weather radar. During the secretive development phase of the device we now know as the Amazon Echo, engineers seriously pushed for the name "Amazon Doppler." Thankfully, cooler heads in the marketing department realized that naming a consumer home product after an acoustic physics phenomenon was a terrible idea. They went with Echo, which sounds slightly more mysterious and slightly less nerdy.
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