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Amazon are the best people at this as they have the technical ability, vision, and willingness to invest in long term projects. AWS was not great in its first

by ghein 8y ago

Amazon are the best people at this as they have the technical ability, vision, and willingness to invest in long term projects. AWS was not great in its first 5 years. Its capabilities 5 years ago were pretty good but nothing compared to today. Google is bad at long term development, especially with Ruth Porat at CFO. Microsoft is mixed - for every Xbox and Hololens there's a Courier. One thing missed in chatbots is that X dot AI is a chat bot that works pretty well. There are others that are similarly domain limited where the current interaction model is an email thread or a text conversation. These tend to be doing well.

romwell 8y ago
>Microsoft is mixed - for every Xbox and Hololens there's a Courier. My perception of Microsoft is that it's a Hydra. The upside is that it's not all bad! The head responsible for the product you care for might have been there for a long time, and is doing a really good job in keeping it up. The downside is that the other heads might be doing something entirely different and turn the whole beast around . And while all this is going on, some heads just get chopped off here and there. (sniff Lumia sniff)
m1sta_ 8y ago
The courier concept is far from dead
apapli 8y ago
I looked at X dot AI, but cannot justify the price. I would do 20 meetings a week and place a high value on my time, but to me their value proposition is simply not aligned with the price they are asking. I just don't believe it will help me that much. As an aside, I tend to think about what I'd be prepared to pay for something before I click on the pricing page. In the case of X dot AI, it was about $5-10 per month. I'm sure it is good, but docusign (similar price) is MUCH more valuable to me - time kills deals and docusign helps bring them in. An AI bot that books in meetings just doesn't deliver the same ROI.

by ghein 8y ago

romwell 8y ago

>Microsoft is mixed - for every Xbox and Hololens there's a Courier. My perception of Microsoft is that it's a Hydra. The upside is that it's not all bad! The head responsible for the product you care for might have been there for a long time, and is doing a really good job in keeping it up. The downside is that the other heads might be doing something entirely different and turn the whole beast around . And while all this is going on, some heads just get chopped off here and there. (sniff Lumia sniff)

m1sta_ 8y ago

The courier concept is far from dead

apapli 8y ago

I looked at X dot AI, but cannot justify the price. I would do 20 meetings a week and place a high value on my time, but to me their value proposition is simply not aligned with the price they are asking. I just don't believe it will help me that much. As an aside, I tend to think about what I'd be prepared to pay for something before I click on the pricing page. In the case of X dot AI, it was about $5-10 per month. I'm sure it is good, but docusign (similar price) is MUCH more valuable to me - time kills deals and docusign helps bring them in. An AI bot that books in meetings just doesn't deliver the same ROI.