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Amazon aims to diminish the role of smartphones with Alexa (AMZN)

Amazon is seeking ways to expand the scope of its AI-infused voice assistant that will reduce user reliance on smartphones

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Amazon is seeking ways to expand the scope of its AI-infused voice assistant that will reduce user reliance on smartphones. Amazon’s consumer tech success hinges on this strategy:

The company missed out on the smartphone market, and outside the home, users tend to rely on their phone's native voice assistant — a market controlled by Google and Apple — rather than third-party competitors such as Alexa (available via the Amazon app).

To continue growing its voice platform and keep Alexa competitive, Amazon needs to drain digital time and attention away from smartphones. To accomplish this, the tech giant is seeking new ways apart from smart speakers to host its voice assistant. Here’s how Amazon is hopes to drive the adoption and usage of Alexa sans smartphone:

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  • Creating tabletop smart-screen devices that run Alexa.
  • Baking Alexa into
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  • Adding more visual elements to Alexa skills.

Shifting the norm for how consumers interact with digital software, content, and services, will help Amazon to solve its lack of a smartphone footprint. One way that Amazon is driving this shift is by enabling its products to do what have traditionally been smartphone tasks. Rohit Prasad, Amazon VP and Head Scientist at Alexa Machine Learning, echoed this sentiment and said that voice or video calling on Amazon’s devices will help to reduce the need for a smartphone. And another is by making Alexa more useful and more ubiquitous as voice usage surges. By 2020, voice will account for 50% of all mobile web searches.

ssesses the evolving app landscape, examines how the existing app model is threatened by the decline of broad app usage, profiles the promising new tech in the space across Apple, Facebook, and Google, and explores barriers standing in the way of user adoption.

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