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Re:The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on Amazon this ... by dustinmoris on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @05:03AM (#16013892)
You are missing the point. Even a random name wouldn't work when people talk about it. Alexa is the perfect example! Google did the right thing. Google home is what people talk about and "Ok Google" is what activities the device.
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Re:The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on Amazon this ... by StavrosK on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @08:47AM (#16014697)
That's because Google didn't give its assistant a personality. People talk about Alexa because personifying the software is powerful, otherwise they'd be talking about the Echo.

Notice how, even in your post, you say "people talk about Google Home", but the equivalent to Google Home isn't Alexa, it's the Echo Dot.

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Re:The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on Amazon this ... by icc97 on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @08:59AM (#16014759)
No it works perfectly well. It worked brilliantly with Siri and had done for years before. People talking about it in the same room is an inconvenience to overcome.

It's possible that Google copied Baidu, which used "Ni hao baidu" [0] is the only thing I can think of.

[0]: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning-projects/lec... (see the video transcript)

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