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Re:Voice Is the Next Big Platform, and Alexa Will Own It by mattnewton on Monday December 19, 2016 @09:01PM (#13216773)
It's like a CLI- intimidating and not discoverable at first, but hopefully powerful later on. Except I am not sold on how it will be powerful yet: it lacks th "replay" that cli's have with scripts, and it lacks composability right now.
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Re:Voice Is the Next Big Platform, and Alexa Will Own It by freehunter on Monday December 19, 2016 @09:34PM (#13216942)
Tab completion, the "history" command, and using the up-arrow weren't in the first shells either. Eventually someone will find a way to create custom macros with voice commands.
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Re:Voice Is the Next Big Platform, and Alexa Will Own It by mattnewton on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:07AM (#13220397)
I have no idea what that would look like for the end consumer but I remain hopeful!
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