This week in the news, Nick talks about the new Amazon Command Center and Light and Dark mode in the Alexa mobile app.
Amazon is developing a new wall mounted ‘command hub’, according to a report in Bloomberg. The device, which is speculated to be a thin Echo device could be used as a ‘smart home command center’ – being comprised of a 10″ or 13″ touchscreen display with the ability to control various smart home devices, play music and videos, video-chat on a built-in camera, and access the Alexa voice assistant.
Amazon has pushed an update for its Alexa iOS app today with two notable accessibility-focused improvements – support for the iOS system wide dark/light mode setting as well as compatibility with Apple’s system wide Dynamic Type feature.
Reported by Stephen Aquino for Forbes, the two valuable changes came with Amazon Alexa version 2.2.401007.0 for iPhone and iPad today. Amazon only lists “Various bug fixes and performance improvements” for the build but it features a switch from the previous darkish blue default UI to now respecting the iOS system setting for dark/light mode. Stephen notes this will be appreciated by some with visual impairments.
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