Founder and Chief Analyst, Jackdaw
Amazon is pursuing the same vision as Google — that of a virtual assistant that’s truly virtual, inhabiting all the different devices we interact with throughout the day.
Its addressable market is pretty small, composed of innovators and early adopters.
And where does it go from here?
It’s important to stay grounded as we evaluate chat bots as a potential successor to today’s app model.
Armies of smartphone-toting citizens are today’s Zapruders.
It’s too early to call winners and losers for this market -- most of these products aren’t even in consumers’ hands yet.
Why would Apple want to release a four-inch phone?
Think about what you’d need to have in place to build a successful e-commerce business.
This case is actually about brute-forcing a passcode, and not about encryption itself.
Focusing too much on who’s in first place risks missing the point.