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  • Nest absorbed into Google to better battle HomeKit, Alexa for home automation supremacy

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    jimh2 said:
    In the end merging into Google will be detrimental to Nest because as we know Google never finishes, much less polishes any product.
    And yet oddly enough, they have been part of Google for several years and offer finished, polished products through multiple generations. Not to mention Chromecast, Home, and Pixel devices.
    russw

  • Apple's iOS App Store users spent $11.5 billion in Q4, 95% more than Google Play

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    Different business models. Apple wants to make more money from a smaller number of higher-paying customers. Google wants to get its product in front of as many eyes as possible and sell advertising. I think it made about $50B last year from mobile ads - a lot of that on iOS. It wouldn't make sense for Google to shift its strategy and focus only on the high end and lose the ad revenue. Their goal is to make technology cheap to everyone benefits.
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • HomePod hands on account finds sound superior to competitors, data only read to main user

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    maestro64 said:

    Does this imply that the Google product would tell a person in your house about your meeting or to-do items if you not home. I like the fact the someone could not ask the Siri to tell them what my schedule looks like, I may had date with my girlfriend and would not want my wife to know about it.

    In all seriousness, this is stuff Google does not think about, they through so much at a wall and wait to see if it stick or falls off. They apologies when they screw their customers, ops sorry I meant to say product since we are their product not their customer.

    I just tested it out by putting on a funny voice. It would tell me the weather but when I asked for my calendar, it said it couldn't verify my voice. You can train multiple voices though so I assume it can read two difference calendars
    avon b7watto_cobra

  • Samsung confirms 'Galaxy S9' launch for February 25 by teasing changes to the iPhone rival...

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    SpamSandwich said:
    Mark my words, these hacks will also introduce a “Samsung X” model because they are that derivative.
    They almost certainly will, it's been rumoured that the foldable phone will be called the Galaxy X since at least 2016.
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  • HomePod, the iPod for your home

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    AppleInsider said:

    HomePod is product. Alexa & Assistant are surveillance services

    But perhaps the primary reason why HomePod will attract a valuable base of buyers is that Apple makes products to delight its users. That's how Apple makes virtually all of its money. It doesn't sell ad placement by offering advertisers insight into when, where and how certain users will be most vulnerable to their messages. It doesn't line up sellers with the tools to extort higher prices from buyers by shifting prices around at different times or to different demographics. HomePod is being sold to buyers straightforwardly as a great audio product, just as iPod was 17 years ago

    HomePod is being sold to buyers straightforwardly as a great audio product, just as iPod was 17 years ago. Amazon Alexa (across all of the devices it's sold with) is not a product sold to users to benefit them. It is a service provided to users nearly at cost in order to herd them toward other sales and take advantage of all of the information it can collect on how they shop, what they do and what, when and how they do it.

    Google's Assistant is just a knockoff of Alexa. If anyone "missed the boat" on voice assistants, it's not Apple (which brought Siri into the mainstream as Google and Microsoft publicly denigrated the idea of voice assistants on a smartphone). It's Google, the company that boasts of 'organizing all of the world's information' for paid placement of ads, which sat there while an online warehouse company beat it at installing an intelligent tracking cookie in the homes of its customers.


    I have no doubt that HomePod will sell well. I'm an Android user and can see that if I was invested into Apple's products, I'd be fine spending the extra money on the HomePod. But this article ignores that many of Google and Amazon's customers are delighted with what they get from them. My Nest thermostat is brilliant, I'm sad winter will end soon. My Chromecast Audio and Chromecast always work exactly the way I want them to and have breathed new life into my TV and stereo. And my two Home Minis make me feel like I live in the future. Google may be mining my data but if I get a great experience as a result, then that's fine with me. I'll possibly buy the Home Max eventually for my office but for now I'll wait and see what other HW vendors come out with.

    As a side note, Home may be an Echo knock off but Assistant, which is essentially a refurbished Now, was around long before Alexa. Now was even on iOS before Alexa was launched.
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