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Re:Google in, Google out by dzhiurgis on Monday May 22, 2017 @06:53AM (#14392446)
Having 7nth way to pay for something is cute, but not exciting.

The real bother is fragmentation. The amount of time wasted integrating to each vendor speech, vision, backend API's is just going to be enormous.

> Maybe one reason for introducing it already now is to start collecting data

With Google, this is always the reason. This is sort of cleverness I admire about them.

Re:Google in, Google out by fixermark on Monday May 22, 2017 @10:10AM (#14393670)
This has generally been resolved in the past by third-parties acting as an infrastructure glue---building one API that can manipulate the other APIs.