Amazon’s Echo is out of stock amid rumors of new model

Amazon’s Echo is out of stock online, as noted by TechCrunch earlier today. And given that the Echo is such a core part of Amazon’s hardware business, and that the company has been running near-constant sales on that for the last few months, there are two ways to take this news:
Amazon is planning to update the Echo — whose hardware hasn’t really changed in the years since it was first released back in 2015 — with a new model, explaining the last few months of fire