I do not think smart speakers have product-market fit. Or more precisely, I think the fit they have found is not one that gives Amazon or Google any great strategic benefit
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Replying to @IamDanielGonz @benedictevans
Daniel, thanks for asking. Agree that as when the Apple ][ was released it was said there was no fit to the Mainframe computer. A confluence of constituent utility was found in the first 10 years.Not the predicted checkbook balancer for—home it gave rise to something unpredicted.
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Daniel, additionally. We can talk about this theoretically. Or we can empirically observe the fact it is the fastest adoption of any technology. Perhaps those folks that purchased millions of these devices and the 11,000 folks at Amazon working on JUST ALEXA know—something?pic.twitter.com/bqg5hVDEOJ
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Replying to @benedictevans @IamDanielGonz
Benedict, I hear ya. I find it to be a persuasive argument to see this as the crude and early progenitor to a new paradigm fundamentally formed around the universal access to the work product of ML and perhaps AI. Prodigious evidence that this is precisely what is happening.
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Fair to say 2014-2017 smart speakers were the “Model T” of voice computing?
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That presumes there is a path to something fundamentally better. There is not.
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Benedict, indeed. The true antecedents to the Model T is the horse drawn cart. The self driving car has an antecedent in the Model T. The constituent path was not evident in the Model T epoch. Or was the Self Driving Car. One can argue the horse had the path all along however.
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele @benedictevans and
Actually, I think the horse and carriage was an autonomous vehicle, more or less.
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