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There was some belief, I think, that there was an app space for voice apps, similar to mobile. I don't think that's necessarily true, and despite Alexa focusing on making it relatively easy for developers to create their own VUI apps, there hasn't been (as far as I know), any real killer app developed in this space.

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Apps on voice are so handicapped - it's really difficult to handle any one-time setup. I wanted to see if I could make a voice app that looked for emails on my third-party mail server but it's just not practical with the stateless function requirement.

The Echo devices are way way too dumb. The user's Cloud account needs app-accessible storage.

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