[rldjbpin]

from a ux perspective, all of this is quite exciting and is made possible with our growing capabilities with computer vision and language understanding.

however, it is quite interesting, the way these things are named and branded. calling it "computerless" or "screenless" is quite funny semantically. of course we need computing (often through the cloud even) to get it to run. and the word "screen" was originally meant to describe a surface to be projected on, which a lot of these solutions do!!

i'd wager that along the same lines, pretty much any smart voice assistant in your room could fit into this bucket, albeit with different capability set.

this is still at a stage where it seems like a lot of work to make it do what we take for granted on a daily basis. very far from reality for those who wanted to get rid of screens altogether. for that, the focus should more be on what one does on a screen than the hardware itself.