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Originally Posted by Shane R
Interesting.
This means that they want Alexa to be an ecosystem and not strictly a product.  |
Yup. And a free one at that.
After all, Alexa is the cloud service and, like Kindle books, it is accessible everywhere.
Where they make their money are Echo, Dot, Tap, Fire TV & Stick, and the content and products they sell through them. They have targeted home automation as a strategic target and the want Alexa to be everybody's front end there. A whole new approach to building an ecosystem.
I think Wozniak is right and Alexa is the next great platform, the one that will take home automation into the mainstream.