Year: 2017

The Amazon Echo is having its mainstream moment: https://t.co/WAolFNEj0C

Finally @yelp is revamping design. It felt like a website/app from 2000. Yet, they continue to neglect the most important asset: bookmarks.

Huge @amazonecho potential is constrained by the invocation name in Alexa Skills. Remove that and you’ll have a more natural conversation.

Better technology never wins against better user experience. When will we learn?

@Aissn @cdaffara the launcher doesn’t have to be monetized. It’s the one trojan horse to allow Alexa in most Android phones out there.

Designing for customers you have vs. designing for customers you can’t get yet. Consider corporate growth goals in your product roadmaps.

@krishnan I think Amazon has passed that phase and realised that Alexa is much bigger opportunity than controlling a secondary app store

@michelebusta app-centric security. How do you secure workloads that live in multiple environments and might move through containers? & more

2/ I’m surprised Amazon didn’t try to build a state of the art “launcher” for Android yet. That’s faster ROI than a full Android distro.

1/ For Alexa to thrive against Google Assistant on Android, Amazon has to succeed in building a frictionless, unmissable experience there.