pvrfan
Active Member
Aha. Maybe some are waking up to the thought that voice control, by itself, really doesn't give you that much:
"...half a decade after Alexa launched, there’s a lingering question: has Amazon’s assistant actually become more useful?"
"...Ultimately, Amazon has been extremely — even scarily — successful at spreading Alexa over the world of internet-enabled gadgets, but its functionality still feels thin. It’s a technology that is miles wide but inches deep, always there in a pinch but never quite as good as you’d like. And in many cases, it adds exactly zero intelligence to gizmos, just tacking on voice controls instead. Amazon doesn’t help with this."
https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/6/20951178/amazon-alexa-echo-launch-anniversary-age-funtionality-not-changed-use-cases
"The smart home is dead. I'm not sure exactly when the time of death should have been called, but it happened at some point between Google trying to rebrand the smart home as "the helpful home" and the publication of this article, which expresses dismay that at five years of age, Amazon's Alexa offers little more than a new way of interacting with things, without deep functionality or truly new use cases. "
https://mailchi.mp/iotpodcast/stacey-on-iot-no-one-knows-how-to-sell-iot?e=51cba5435c
Thoughts?
Craig
"...half a decade after Alexa launched, there’s a lingering question: has Amazon’s assistant actually become more useful?"
"...Ultimately, Amazon has been extremely — even scarily — successful at spreading Alexa over the world of internet-enabled gadgets, but its functionality still feels thin. It’s a technology that is miles wide but inches deep, always there in a pinch but never quite as good as you’d like. And in many cases, it adds exactly zero intelligence to gizmos, just tacking on voice controls instead. Amazon doesn’t help with this."
https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/6/20951178/amazon-alexa-echo-launch-anniversary-age-funtionality-not-changed-use-cases
"The smart home is dead. I'm not sure exactly when the time of death should have been called, but it happened at some point between Google trying to rebrand the smart home as "the helpful home" and the publication of this article, which expresses dismay that at five years of age, Amazon's Alexa offers little more than a new way of interacting with things, without deep functionality or truly new use cases. "
https://mailchi.mp/iotpodcast/stacey-on-iot-no-one-knows-how-to-sell-iot?e=51cba5435c
Thoughts?
Craig