New post: smart homes and vegetable peelers. How many smart things will we have in our homes? What will make sense? How much room is there here for startups? Will all these devices be connected to Alexa, and if they are, will it matter?https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/1/4/smart-homes-and-vegetable-peelers …
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Replying to @benedictevans
Great post.
@BrianRoemmele would love to hear your thoughts on some of these points, specifically, “the ideal number of skills for such a system is either 3 or infinity, but not 50 or 5000.”1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes -
Replying to @johnrea88 @benedictevans
John, thanks for asking. Benedict is brilliant and his insights are usually 100% on target for me. On Voice we diverge. For 35 years I empirically worked with the technology. Many points I agree. But there is not a single doubt to me that it is the next major platform/interface.
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele @benedictevans
Thanks! With great tools to simplify the NLP (like http://API.AI ), I think we’ve seen an explosion of “one trick pony” consumer apps (similar to early iPhone App Store), so I’m interested to see what kinds of apps rise to “killer” status.
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Replying to @johnrea88 @benedictevans
John, indeed. Just like the mobile-first revolution. The
#VoiceFirst revolution will generate completely new use cases that the “it’s just a cell phone” folks a dozen years ago could not have imagined: “Network is too slow” “battery life” “processor speed” arguments many used.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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John, the folly of BlackBerry (see below) was they could not see the shift. This is the same for those that think #VoiceFirst is like “expert systems” of the past. The “killer apps” will make this far more clear.https://twitter.com/brianroemmele/status/959910998382559232 …
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