Aug 27, 2018 | Android, Apple, Chrome, Echo, Google, Google Home, home assistants
Google is an advertising company. Its incentives are all tied to maximizing engagement with places where you will see ads served up by Google’s ad network. But that has more depth than you realize, driven by Google’s desire to have those ads be more effective and...
Aug 19, 2018 | Amazon, Apple, business, Echo, Google, Google Home, home assistants, web_services
Amazon seeks to be the middleman in every financial transaction on the planet. Its incentives are all tied to making customers happy in every context where Amazon can take a small fee as money moves from one place to another. Since the beginning, Amazon’s mission...
Aug 13, 2018 | Amazon, Android, Apple, Echo, Google, Google Home, home assistants, Microsoft, phone
Five giant technology companies have set up walled gardens full of shiny devices and enticing services. All of us live in their gardens. We’re not completely locked in. We move from one walled garden to another, but each company hopes to keep you within its garden by...
Jul 5, 2018 | Amazon, Echo, Google, Google Home, home assistants, shopping
The definitive answer to which is better, Amazon Echo or Google Home? Yeah, that’s not going to happen. Forget about it. Just a stupid clickbait headline so this article goes viral and I get a gazillion tweets and Facebook likes and LinkedIn bites or whatever they do...
Feb 14, 2018 | Amazon, Android, Apple, Echo, Google, Google Home, home assistants, Microsoft
The battle between Amazon and Google in the market for home assistants will be the source of the most interesting technology advances in 2018. You probably know the basics. Perhaps you have an Amazon Echo or Google Home in your kitchen already. You may not be aware,...
