Yeah. And Apple and Google didn't need exclusive hardware for it
I think it was an outburst of optimism? Or just finding new ways of selling to people
I think it was an outburst of optimism? Or just finding new ways of selling to people
For Amazon, that’s something of a threat: Apple, Google, and Microsoft would be well positioned as OS vendors and there is certainly room to imagine that putting Amazon at a disadvantage similar to what non-default search engines faced (remember A9?), not to mention the value of making it as easy as possible to order things.
What I don’t understand is what all of these people were working on. The hardware isn’t bad but it’s not that kind of investment, and the software doesn’t seem to have improved in years (which seems to be true for the entire field - tons of people using them, mostly for the simple stuff Steve Jobs did in the first Siri demo a decade ago). I’m assuming there were projects which haven’t seen the light of day and quite likely never will, and that there’s probably a great inside story about strategic failures locked up behind NDAs.
No?
Well they still had us rewrite the entire OS, not once, but twice, and maintain all three OS’s across 10+ different devices…
They did the same damn thing with the API to cloud servers. Every couple years, new deprecation and new way to do things. Promo driven development out the wazoo while ironically quoting “customer obsession”
Zero ability to influence direction as IC. All top down initiatives from directors planned a year in advance.
The later versions seem to be marginally less capable of understanding speech and far more annoying.
"Alexa, play romantic music!" "Here's 100 top romantic death metal hits! By the way, did you know I can produce fart noises? Just ask, Alexa, blah blah blah"
"Customer obsession" is a joke.
No one wants to lose market share because they are too late.
Everyone keeps telling about android and Iphone and how blackberry, nokia and windows lost