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Amazon, call it the Alexa phone and make it good and you have a winner. I would buy one.

• r00fus 9y ago
  Do you think Micosoft should have rebranded their mobile products as Skype? Not dissimilar to what you're proposing (which may work).
  • SeeDave 9y ago
    I think Cortana for their voice assistant was a brilliant move
    • nathanasmith 9y ago
      Not me. Every time I think "Cortana", I can't help but think video game (Halo) since that's the point of reference making it seem less serious and by extension less helpful. Whether that's rational or not is neither here nor there as part of what makes this stuff a success is perception. My perception of Alexa and Google Assistant is that's it's more serious, i.e., a legitimate tool.
      • SeeDave 9y ago
        Fair enough of an assessment, I just thought it was clever and happened to like the continuity between an established IP from the game and a competitor to Siri. As far as it being part of a game, my take on it was that people in real life would use Cortana as a virtual assistant similar to how she is used in Halo.
  • efdee 9y ago
    They might have if Skype had a better reputation.