Had a talk with amazing folks last night. Consensus was me to tweet this:
There are 9 companies and 177 people in #VoiceFirst that:
-If Apple acquired they would lead #VoiceFirst
-If Google acquired they would easily pass Amazon
-If Amazon acquired, no one would ever catch up
Markus, great points. You know IBM in 1976 and 1984 may have thought this. Nokia and Blackberry/RIM in 2008 may have thought this. Amazon Fire Phone folks in 2014 may have thought this. Copy they will, but access to talent and vision ain’t gonna be made by 100,000 folks guessing.
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The big tech companies have all either acquired equivalent voice platforms (Siri, Alexa), similar NLP platforms/other components (Dialogflow, http://API.ai , http://Wit.ai , Alexa skills kit) or built their own (Google Home, Cortana).
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Technologically their capabilities are all roughly the same. Amazon is clearly leading however because of their strategy of embedding Alexa chips into millions of devices. This will determine the winners imho - not technology.
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