Leaving your home to Alexa !
I was fascinated by my friend's comment, "my kid thinks that we have a new person in our home called Alexa". You must me as perplexed as I was and therefore, let me try to explain in this post who is Alexa and what is the disruption it is going to create in future in a non-techie manner? Apple announced a new product, Apple HomePod recently. It has been launched after the success of Amazon echo and Google Home . These products are hardware for virtual assistants provided by the respective companies. Apple has been selling most of the devices with Siri. Google on the other hand has been perfecting Google now to automate various tasks. The most successful assistant so far has been Alexa by Amazon. There biggest disruption, which differentiates these products from other tech products is the value of the software. The software in all these products are valued much higher than the hardware itself.. Apple HomePod Each of the virtual assistants demonstrate the capabi