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 …
Alex, a problem many saw a decade ago. This method of “selecting an app” is fundamentally flawed on medium and long term. There are simple and elegant solutions an @BenedictEvans did a great service to point out the current flaws in trajectory.
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Skills as we know them - isolated conversations bubbles, with different personas and voices, not sharing any context and invoked by distinct names - are not a viable solution of the Personal Assitant paradigm, where the promess is frictionless and contextual conversations.
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What I rather see in the future is deeply interconnected micro-skills cooperating together to solve users needs. In this sense what you guys showed at ViV is definitively the future!
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