The commentary on the latest Made by Google launch has been primarily on hardware. Still, I thought it would be more interesting to share some considerations on the overall strategy that transpired from the actual presentation, especially around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how it compares to what we heard just a couple of weeks ago…

At Alexa Live 2021, Amazon’s annual developer conference focused on skills and services built for Alexa-enabled devices, the company shared a long list of improvements both from a features and developer tools perspective. Seven years in the making, Alexa now counts hundreds of millions of devices in use, driving billions of weekly interactions across the…