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When you can buy the third-gen Echo Show 8 (see issue 352, p72) for £100 – a price it’s frequently discounted to from £150 – you may wonder why anyone would buy the Echo Hub. After all, this loses the webcam of its sister product and includes lesser speakers. It is, pure and simple, a smart home controller.
In practice this means that, while