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Something about "Hey Siri, ..." is much more grating to me to say than "Alexa, ...". Maybe it's just that conjunction of phonemes being rare in English?

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That's nothing compared to "Okay Google".

Try saying that three times fast. Actually, try saying it just once fast.

I always end up spitting out something like "Okaygggeellggglle"

You can say "Hey Google".

The "Hey" gets extremely grating after the fifth time in a row.

Amazon has it right on this with Alexa.

It's utterly astonishing that Google still has the hubris not to give it a personal name.

People want to believe they're talking to a personal assistant, even if that isn't true, and Google is stupidly stripping them of that.

I think it’s just a branding thing. Notice how e.g. the app is named “Google Chrome” (but not “Mozilla Firefox”).

But in this case it doesn't work. I don't repeat the name "Chrome" 20 times a day like I will for a Google Home. This is a serious f*cking flaw and it actually makes me worry for Google's stock price that they can't see how obvious of a problem this is and/or are too paralyzed to fix it.

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