Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect

Re:Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect by swang on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @01:44PM (#15552243)

i mean, the amazon echo was a pretty interesting new thing that they created a market for. tthen once they realized people were buying it every big tech company jumped on it to not get behind.

the problem is if google doesn't go into the "speaker with a voice assistant" space, they allow amazon to possibly gain dominance in said space. this is why everyone wants to get in on drone delivery, self-driving cars, vr, etc..

and while "creative", the kinect wasn't a thing microsoft invented either. in fact, primesense, the company that created the original kinect got bought out by apple, and basically that tech is in the iphone x now.

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Re:Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect by ifhd on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @03:50PM (#15553491)

But at some point shouldn't someone stop to question how valuable the space really is?

I suppose at least the data is worth a lot towards better voice control efforts.

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Re:Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect by swang on Thursday October 26, 2017 @12:18PM (#15560269)

a device that's sitting in the home is priceless to a company. not even for the data they get. it's because the next device they buy they'll think of devices that will work with the one they've already bought. have an amazon echo? they'll probably buy speakers that support alexa, car integrations with alexa, etc..

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