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This is another thing that makes you wonder why companies expose APIs to their services that enablenothers to make competing services.
by grok2 11y ago
This is another thing that makes you wonder why companies expose APIs to their services that enablenothers to make competing services.
- hiddencost 11y agoAmazon doesn't care about selling the hardware. They'd be ecstatic if this caught on. It'd be like owning the kindle ecosystem without having to take a loss on the hardware. They provide Alex-as-a-service: https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-voice-service https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-vo... ("Build for Free. Using AVS to power speech experiences on your devices is completely free.") (Note: I'm guessing that this will be lower accuracy than the echo, since the echo's acoustic models are probably tuned for their hardware.)
- sp332 11y agoThey can revoke your access at any time.
- optimiz3 11y agoWhich is why no one is going to use it.
- notyourwork 11y agoReminds me of twitter awhile back.