Analysts opine that consumers would largely prefer mid ranged priced smart speakers over one that costs hundreds of dollars. According to analysts, both Amazon.com and Alphabet Inc have heavily discounted their virtual assistant speakers during the U.S. holiday shopping season such that they have lost many dollars per speaker sold. The development underscores a sharp…
Google’s gain is Microsoft’s loss. Microsoft will now focus on increasing Bing’s footprint in the PC market. Satya Nadella, Microsoft Corp’s CEO, said Bing, the company’s search engine, will focus on expanding its footprint in the PC market as opposed to the mobile market. The announcement comes in the wake of Microsoft losing its deal…
Alibaba’s Echo will speak Mandarin and will be available in China only. According to sources familiar with the matter at hand, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is likely to launch a product that is almost identical to Amazon.com “Echo” speaker next week. Launched in 2014, “Amazon Echo”, is a portable speaker which can…
Featuring realtime acoustic modelling, the HomePod will ship this December. On Monday, with the launch of the HomePod, Apple has taken aim at Amazon.com’s Echo devices featuring Alexa. The development underscores Apple’s move to launch a device into a completely new market segment after a gap of more than two years. With this launch, the…
The difference in approach to Apple’s and Amazon’s personal assistant is telling. Following Amazon’s lead, Apple is expected to announce its plans this coming week for expanding Siri, its voice assistant, to a large variety of app, in efforts aimed at mirroring Amazon’s runaway success with Alexa. However, engineers and artificial intelligence insiders state, instead…
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