Short answer? Probably No. Let’s dig in. Amazon is the 800lb gorilla in the e-commerce world. They dropped the bomb of the Echo years before anyone could respond, and Google was the first at-bat with their Google Home. However, both companies have very different pedigrees and therefore are tackling the same problem – how to […]
Google is Trying Too Hard to Beat Amazon Echo at Commerce
The battle for the home personal assistant is in full force. Amazon came out of left field with the release of Echo and the Alexa assistant over two years ago. Since then, everyone from Google to Samsung to Apple to Microsoft has been scrambling to come up with their digital assistant or in-home connected speaker. Each […]
Google Should Have Put Assistant into Messenger, Not Allo
Last year Google released a pair of apps called Allo and Duo to address the messaging and video calling market. Many bemoaned yet another set of apps from Google instead of updating existing ones. With competition from Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp (also owned by Facebook), and iMessage by Apple, why did Google need yet another app. […]