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According to Ars Technica, Google Home is actually gonna be more locked down than Amazon Echo. > Initially, Google says that it will not be creating APIs for A
by oxguy3 10y ago
According to Ars Technica, Google Home is actually gonna be more locked down than Amazon Echo.
> Initially, Google says that it will not be creating APIs for Assistant and Home and that as such, any integrations with services and other devices will have to come from Google first. This approach is a contrast with the Echo, which is designed to be extensible.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/05/google-assistant-and-google-home-amazon-echo-but-from-google/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/05/google-assistant-and...
Dreams = crushed :(
- supergeek133 10y agoIf true.... seriously Google?
- danellis 10y agoThat's not what they said in the keynote. They were explicit about the fact that developers would be able to extend it. They used Uber as an example.
- ENGNR 10y agoI wonder what the point of even announcing it at a dev conference was, save it for CES
- dragonwriter 10y agoInitially doing internal integrations, then releasing API access to trusted partners, then making APIs publicly available is how Google has done lots of things. So, I wouldn't be surprised if that's the route Google does with this.
- capitalsigma 10y agoYeah, I suspect the idea is that "public APIs are forever," especially in hardware. They probably want to be able to collect some real user data, make a few mistakes and get a better idea of what role the product is actually going to fulfill before committing to something that they'll have to maintain indefinitely.
- rtkwe 10y agoThe key word there is initially. Echo didn't have an SDK when it was first released either neither did Google Now for a while. That's Google's MO for new services and APIs, limited initial release to iron out the bugs and not flood with low effort apps/services.