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Apple TV Plus has fewer viewers than PBS and Vudu. Google’s smartphones sell poorly. And yet they persist.

Amazon executives have tried to justify to their bosses the popular but money-losing home devices with Alexa and will soon offer a paid artificial intelligence version of the voice assistant to try to generate more cash, according to the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post reporting. End of carouselOn the bright side, IDC senior research director Nabila Popal said, Pixel sales are better if you look only at the category of higher-priced phones. In a statement, Amazon said it believes the remodeled Alexa is an opportunity to “provide even more proactive, personal, and trusted assistance in the over half a billion Alexa-enabled devices already in homes around the world.”

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