It's got a multitude of uses. The main ones we use in the kitchen is the radio feature (both live and catch up on BBC Sounds - other broadcasters are available) - Shopping list is particularly useful in a kitchen environment (adding items on the fly when cooking), multiple timers The speaker on my Mac Book is crap, so bluetoothing to it is handy. Playing music of your choice as and when - there are some functions which are more rarely used, such as setting the heating to come on and off. We have two in the house, both are used on a daily basis. Quite useful. I recently replaced my old iPad with an Amazon Fire thing, that also rpelicates the functions of the of an echo device.
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