Amazon Has a Few Things to Say About Apple's HomePod
Apple made its long-awaited debut into the smart home space at WWDC this week, announcing its $349 Apple HomePod connected speaker with Siri. At the Wired Concern Conference today in New York City, the exec behind Alexa—Amazon's SVP of Devices David Limp—explained how he thinks Apple'due south connected speaker fits into the landscape.
At that place's plenty of talk virtually pitting the features, pricing, and specs of Apple HomePod, Amazon Echo, and Google Home against ane another. For Limp, the first affair that stands out nigh the HomePod is its price.
"Information technology's definitely a premium product at $350," said Limp. "From our standpoint, it's a footling different philosophically from how we're looking at Repeat. Nosotros come across these endpoints for assistants in every room. One of the reasons we came out with the Echo Dot was getting the toll to under $50. If y'all think about putting an Echo in every room times a two-room apartment or an eight-room dwelling...compared to $350 for HomePod you could have eight Dots with our three-pack."
Limp as well talked about what Amazon has learned about the marketplace and consumer preference as it has released and refined its Echo offerings over the by several years. I chemical element he'south curious to meet how Apple handles is the very particular consumer preferences effectually speakers and sound quality.
"The second matter we learned [bated from pricing] is that people's sense of taste in speakers are unbelievably personal," Limp argued. "It'south like cars. What you like in terms of the bass response, someone else may detest considering they listen to classical music and focus on the treble.
"You might like Bose, they might like Sonos," he continued. "Dot and Repeat through Bluetooth and Sound Out can connect to other speakers. A Dot with the speaker of your choice seems similar the right path for consumers. Information technology'll be interesting to meet if Apple comes to the aforementioned determination."
As for whether Amazon would ever release its own premium speaker, all Limp said, cryptically, is that Amazon e'er aims to give consumers a lot of choice.
Alexa + Siri = Dear?
One of the most interesting tidbits from Limp'south interview at the conference was some insight on Amazon's philosophy almost working with other players in the space.
"Our view is not homogenous. No more so than the services in your house similar where you buy your washing machine, or the choice of whether y'all shop at Nordstrom or Amazon. We feel it's a lot more of a web paradigm than an operating system paradigm," said Limp. "Our promise and our first efforts are to open up up the environment with skills to augment Alexa. Over time you could imagine maxim something like 'Hey Alexa, enquire Siri this.'"
Limp said that'southward a very existent use example, and that the differences between Siri, Cortana, and Google Assistant ultimately shouldn't stop that kind of integration in the future. Amazon'southward stance is that it's open to integrations and making sure its software works with anyone's hardware.
"If Andy [Rubin] wants to utilise Alexa and his own assistant [in the Essential Phone], nosotros'd be all for it. If Apple or Google want to call, I'm happy to respond the phone. I promise there's a 24-hour interval when that happens."
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