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70% of people have bought alexa. http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-echo-vs-google-home-sales-estimates-chart-2017-5 http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-e

70% of people have bought alexa. http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-echo-vs-google-home-sales-estimates-chart-2017-5 http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-echo-vs-google-home-sa... I think amazon has a pretty big lead in the voice assistance market. I know you can use google assistant on your phone, but if you have your phone it might easier to just type it in.

melling 9y ago
Amazon has 70% of the voice assistant market. That’s not percentage of total households. Amazon has taken the Echo global so look for hundreds of millions of users soon. https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/3d8b2e1e-d8c5-41f6-a193-5456a590ef9a/amazon-echo-now-available-to-customers-in-over-60-countries https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/3d8b2e1e-d8c5-...
TaylorAlexander 9y ago
Which people? Surely not all people.
dragonwriter 9y ago
> 70% of people have bought alexa. No, the claim in the source that that article is based on is that 70% of people who interact with a “voice enabled speaker” at least once a month do so with an Alexa.
- samfisher83 9y ago
  Lets supposed the true sales were 50/50. That would indicate a majority of google people are just buying the equipment and not ever using it.
  - dragonwriter 9y ago
    The true sales of “voice enabled speakers” could be 100% Amazon, and they could still not lead the “voice assistance” marketplace, or reach the claimed 70% of people. The big issue isn't confusing usage rates with market position (those probably are close, though in theory they could be divergent), it's confusing the voice assistance market with the voice-enabled speaker market (and then also confusing the current market for those products with the whole population.) Voice assistance isn't about selling dedicated voice devices, it's about voice-enabled services, for which dedicated devices are simply one gateway. Dedicated devices are a small share of voice assistant usage, far behind smartphones, and even behind the combined category of tablets and general purpose computers [0]. [0] https://www.voicebot.ai/2017/12/12/46-percent-americans-use-voice-assistants-pew-research/ https://www.voicebot.ai/2017/12/12/46-percent-americans-use-...

melling 9y ago

Amazon has 70% of the voice assistant market. That’s not percentage of total households. Amazon has taken the Echo global so look for hundreds of millions of users soon. https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/3d8b2e1e-d8c5-41f6-a193-5456a590ef9a/amazon-echo-now-available-to-customers-in-over-60-countries https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/3d8b2e1e-d8c5-...

TaylorAlexander 9y ago

Which people? Surely not all people.

dragonwriter 9y ago

> 70% of people have bought alexa. No, the claim in the source that that article is based on is that 70% of people who interact with a “voice enabled speaker” at least once a month do so with an Alexa.

samfisher83 9y ago
Lets supposed the true sales were 50/50. That would indicate a majority of google people are just buying the equipment and not ever using it.
- dragonwriter 9y ago
  The true sales of “voice enabled speakers” could be 100% Amazon, and they could still not lead the “voice assistance” marketplace, or reach the claimed 70% of people. The big issue isn't confusing usage rates with market position (those probably are close, though in theory they could be divergent), it's confusing the voice assistance market with the voice-enabled speaker market (and then also confusing the current market for those products with the whole population.) Voice assistance isn't about selling dedicated voice devices, it's about voice-enabled services, for which dedicated devices are simply one gateway. Dedicated devices are a small share of voice assistant usage, far behind smartphones, and even behind the combined category of tablets and general purpose computers [0]. [0] https://www.voicebot.ai/2017/12/12/46-percent-americans-use-voice-assistants-pew-research/ https://www.voicebot.ai/2017/12/12/46-percent-americans-use-...