[Yertis]

This is an interesting play in the voice space...kind of reminds me of the role Dropbox has played in online storage vs GOOG, MSFT, AAPL, AMZN, etc. By being platform agnostic, users can get a unified and better experience across their devices.

Right now voice is cool, but to me it's a little bit of a gimmicky feature that acts differently across devices from different ecosystems. It makes it that much harder to universally change my behavior toward voice across the different devices I use. I can see how Life Bot could change that.

Have you guys thought about the ecosystem dynamics for Life Bot? Do you think the big players will play nice if you start to own the voice relationship with the user, instead of AMZN/GOOG/MSFT/AAPL?

[JessOpearlo]

hey! thanks so much for your comment. That last point is a good one - the way we see it is that the big players have to be nice - because there is so much competition between them - it would dis-encourage the developer community from dedicating time to building amazing voice experiences if they started making the platform less open or blocking certain features. So far we've worked really closely with the Alexa and the Google team when developing Life Bot and both have been really supportive and helpful.