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 @benedictevans
People are buying and using them so there is product market fit. Big time. The bigger point I agree with is that they aren’t an important or essential part of people lives yet. Cue seamless third-party user experiences. That’s the missing link...
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Replying to @Dagk @benedictevans
People bought Netbooks, yet they were not a great fit for purpose. With enough marketing and low enough price people will buy a pet rock or Chia pet...
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John, great point. Yet at what point of saturation does one concede that the model they are using to try to reflect reality, empirically does not fit? After holiday season 2018 we will be far past the 50 percentile of US adoption of stand-alone
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Yeah, since the product in question is the fastest adopted product ever, used by 50% of US households within 5 years of launch its a tough argument against. That said, I agree with every word that this ecosystem is still a mess. Imagine when it isn’t.
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Dag, so very true! Imagine when it solidified around deep use cases as the natural frontend to ML/AI with extensions beyond the scope that any single company could have conceived arising from a very diverse ecosystem of developers.
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