To be fair, there really is a big difference between them. One of them is a fucking moron with a lot of money and the other one is Jeff Bezos.

I use it to remind me to do stuff, set alarms, do math, and I use it as a search engine (like google) that I can talk to.

I also control the lights in my house with it, as well as my coffee pot and tv.

That's a good point.

My guess is because the average person doesn't really understand what it can do enough to see the value in it.

From my own experience, Reddit usually gets really angry with you if you point out blatant ads (like... just a straight up picture of Taco Bell in a food sub, for example).

Ah yes, I read about this type of thing in The Hobbit.