Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo

Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by privateSFacct on Monday January 07, 2019 @12:38AM (#18843041)

I switched our company to google - I’m someone heavily in the google ecosystem and not supported by google.

Alexa does support me even though I don’t pay them for email. This is just one point, but illustrates the point.

Google has better tech, but weird product delivery approach. And I moved to AWS from google compute for a similar set of reasons.

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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by m0zg on Monday January 07, 2019 @12:43AM (#18843053)

Google works very simply on the inside: you get rewarded for launching _new_ impressive stuff. You rarely if ever get rewarded for fixing old and busted _existing_ stuff.

Whether the newly launched stuff is suitable for the user is a tertiary concern. So yeah, no disagreement there, Google is not very user-focused, and has never been. But they're so far ahead technologically that in a lot of cases I'm willing to forgive them their ADHD.

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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by privateSFacct on Monday January 07, 2019 @08:38AM (#18844944)

That would totally explain this! I'm often like, this tech is amazing. But wait, this doesn't even work with this other thing it should work with. It's definitely the fix / polish / integrate corner cases.

Google+ was a nightmare as well with youtube and other services - again, I was like how are you listening to users with these approaches.

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