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People like variety in food. You don’t usually see network effects (ie, recipe only works if you use ingredients from same supplier) Home automation though is
by justonepost 9y ago
People like variety in food. You don’t usually see network effects (ie, recipe only works if you use ingredients from same supplier)
Home automation though is a great network effects play which is why amazon is doing this.
- bduerst 9y agoIf home automation is their goal, then why doesn't Amazon open an API for making automated purchases? They can sell more through their marketplace this way.
- mcherm 9y agoBecause automating homes is not their goal; profiting when others automate their homes is their goal. They appear t believe that they will make significantly more profit by selling home automation tools and the things that attach to them than by carrying some other company's home automation tools in their catalog in addition to their own.
- justonepost 9y agoHaving interviewed with Alexa I can assure you home automation is there #1 goal.
- adrianN 9y agoBecause they want people to buy Alexa?
- stickfigure 9y agoWhy do you assume they aren't working on it? Big companies move slowly. I doubt Amazon could roll something like this out without 5+ years of development - possibly longer depending on how many times the department gets reorg'd.
- justonepost 9y agoFraud concerns most likely. They have an api they support for hooking up to Alexa.