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by veidr 1309 days ago
With all due respect, I find that thesis absurd.

Maybe you meant it like, "the voice assistant space isn't going to generate huge profits, and thus giant corporations will lose interest".

But even that is absurd. They will still have to do it as a loss leader. Maybe not Amazon — because they just ship us our toilet paper and protein bars and shit. They don't have an "ecosystem" (although they gave it a halfhearted try a few times).

But the chance that in 2032 people just like... don't have voice assistants? It's literally zero, barring an actual WWIII cataclysm reversion-to-barbarism event.

> doesn't work as well as people were hoping

Nothing does, until it does...

> little monetization

Yep, that might be right. But it doesn't necessarily mean the space is "dying". Just that it might not be amenable to oligopolization.

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I will never have a voice assistant unless a completely open and self-hosted solution appears on the market. And with current patent landscape, that seems incredibly unlikely to happen before 2032.
OK, I can't keep reading this website any more tonight, but for fuck's sake you do realize that the submission you are commenting on is a completely open and self-hosted solution that is on the market, right?