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Re:Amazon virtually kills efforts to develop Alexa Skills, d... by nextworddev on Thursday April 11, 2024 @10:57PM (#40008991)
You need discoverability to incentivize innovators to add more value, which itself feeds back into the value of the overall ecosystem, etc.

But yes, natural language as an interface requires higher activation energy versus GUI which hampers how much value Alexa Skills (and GPT) can provide.

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Re:Amazon virtually kills efforts to develop Alexa Skills, d... by criddell on Friday April 12, 2024 @11:49AM (#40014256)
You do need discoverability, but you also need a capable platform and things worth discovering.

When I look at Amazon’s skills page, it’s a wasteland. Until there’s something worth surfacing, discoverability doesn’t really matter.

That said, I do have two Echos in my house (and one Home Pod) and use them all the time for basic things.

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