Given what I have been hearing on the voice/chat bots/digital assistants, it seems to me the landscape of competition is already shifting. Amazon Echo. Potenti

Given what I have been hearing on the voice/chat bots/digital assistants, it seems to me the landscape of competition is already shifting. Amazon Echo. Potentially bypassing Google for people searching for things. Viv. Same. Google. Kubernetes, GCE, open sourced Tensor Flow, revealed TPU and how AlphaGo ran on it, right around Allo and Google Assistant. Apple Siri. Have not heard from Apple, but I doubt they are just twiddling their thumbs. Facebook. Microsoft. Maybe they will bring a working Clippy back. And lots of other chat/voice AIs. There are different advantages to each. Competition here is heating up. Just as how smartphones changed how we primarily access information, voice-first interfaces will as well. How will ads work in this world? The antitrust regulators seem a tempo beat behind. Same with that shopping comparison site.