Amazon has admitted they spent upwards of 10B a year on Alexa. Alexa is much more feature rich than Siri, so I sure hope Apple isn’t out spending them. I don’t

Amazon has admitted they spent upwards of 10B a year on Alexa. Alexa is much more feature rich than Siri, so I sure hope Apple isn’t out spending them. I don’t know if I agree that Amazon will be the long term winner either. I see your logic, but Apple also has a speaker and a phone. The HomePod doesn’t have the same market share, but it’s still a sizable market (>20%). IMO Google should have been the clear winner, but they will probably be the loser. They had cheap and varied hardware, they had phones, they had APIs and features like Alexa. But Google can’t seem to stop being Google, and of course GAssistant leadership has absolutely no focus or consistency roadmap. Perhaps tellingly they’re giving up on cloud “skills” and focusing on android. https://www.geekwire.com/2023/amazon-will-cut-several-hundred-more-jobs-on-alexa-team-as-it-discontinues-some-initiatives/ https://www.geekwire.com/2023/amazon-will-cut-several-hundre... https://www.statista.com/chart/29167/smart-speaker-ownership-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/chart/29167/smart-speaker-ownership...