I'll say this again. Currently I have Google home hooked up to my home automation system. It has trouble correctly identifying commands for things like turning on my desk light and understanding South African accents when friend visit from there. My Alexa does a lot better with that. Yet somehow I'm to believe that they have made this massive step forward. Google used to under promise and over-deliver. Now it has been taken over by marketers who tend to over promise and under deliver.

The truth is that they still make the majority of their profit from search, but need to look like they have something to back that up to keep the stock price up. Between that and Waymo it really felt like they don't. Android and the Chomebooks are promising as technologies, and I like they refinements they are offering, but the monetization strategy doesn't seem to be clear strong. It is definitely not as strong as Apple's ability to make profit from selling Macs and I-Phones...