10-31-2024, 02:44 PM | #4981 |
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Apparently Amazon has an "idea team" but doesn't always run these ideas through a thorough marketing analysis nor produce market test prototypes. Smart companies will test the ideas out on potential customers before spending a ton of money and development. Apple has such a dedicated customer/fan base that they can often get away without doing that, but Amazon isn't Apple.
I'm reminded of the annual car shows in which the major car manufacturers show off prototypes and concept vehicles. They can gauge consumer reaction without having to engineer the entire vehicle. Most of those concepts never go beyond the mockups used at the auto shows. Amazon could probably benefit from building mockups and showing them to select consumer groups to gauge consumer response before committing to developing an untested idea. |
11-01-2024, 03:20 PM | #4982 |
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Hey Amazon, what happened? Where's Alexa AI?
Alexa’s New AI Brain Is Stuck in the Lab Amazon is struggling to bring AI to Alexa Alexa, what happened to your big AI upgrade? Can Amazon Alexa's Claude AI Integration Really Be That Remarkable? Amazon Alexa is about to turn 10, but its next-gen AI upgrade may have been delayed until 2025 |
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