Amazon is trying to strengthen its position against competing smart home products (AMZN)

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June 23, 2017 2:58 PM

Developers for connected camera companies can now build skills to link their devices to the forthcoming Echo Show

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Developers for connected camera companies can now build skills to link their devices to the forthcoming Echo Show, Amazon's most expensive smart speaker and the first to feature a screen, thanks to a new Smart Home Skill API.

A handful of companies have already taken advantage, including Netgear, Ring, and Vivint. These companies have built a feature allowing users to say, for example, "Alexa, show me the front door," and the Echo Show will give the user a live stream of their front door or other location where a camera is installed.

This move supports Amazon's larger strategy of creating a robust, practical, user-friendly ecosystem for the Echo devices to combat the increasing threat from competing ecosystems.

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