Interview with Dave Limp, Amazon's head of devices and services, on why he thinks ambient computing will enhance the real world, Fire phone's failure, and Astro
When Amazon launched Alexa — its voice-activated virtual assistant — in 2014, it was met with scepticism. Tweets: @misterged , @leokelion , @daveleeft , @ivan_brussels , @mattmday , @mattmday , and @mattmday Tweets: @misterged : I don't like to laugh at the metaverse too much (partly because the oversimplification of what it is misses points but also good people are employed because of it) but I can't help thinking Amazon focussing on ambient computing to assist real lives will yield greater results https://twitter.com/... Leo Kelion / @leokelion : “Astro's closer to the pet than it is to the personal computer.” - v interesting interview with Amazon devices chief Dave Limp about his belief there will be a robot in “everybody's home”. By @DaveLeeFT (the bearded one on the right!) https://www.ft.com/... Dave Lee / @daveleeft : Amazon's head of devices Dave Limp has only one Ring camera in his house... it points at the liquor cabinet. This insight and more in the latest installment in the FT's Tech Exchange series. https://www.ft.com/... Ivan Maljkovic / @ivan_brussels : FT interview with Dave Limp, Amazon's head of devices and services “I'll take five Fire Phone failures, if I can get one Alexa. The math is that simple.” https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/... Matt Day / @mattmday : and for all the other nerds who enjoy Amazon's preference for burping out data by order of magnitude rather than anything approaching specific numbers: There are between 100 and 1 million Astro robots in circulation. Thanks, Dave. https://twitter.com/... Matt Day / @mattmday : huh. Amazon says shopping using Alexa — that original smart speaker use case that kind of faded into the background as Alexa evolved into a trivia machine and alarm clock — is actually a big deal? https://twitter.com/... Matt Day / @mattmday : wonder how meaningful this data is if Amazon includes folks putting stuff on lists as ‘shoppers’... via @DaveLeeFT's chat with Amazon's Dave Limp. https://www.ft.com/...