Amazon Echo/ Alexa

[Martin H]

(29-01-2017 18:33)DavidHB Wrote:  

(29-01-2017 16:14)brantome Wrote:  From your opening paragraph, I now don't see why someone couldn't develop an Alexa secure generic UPNP skill.

Nor do I. It's just that having a device like Alexa access goods and services from third parties would seem to be a bit of a departure for Amazon. However, I suppose that is already possible on Kindle Fire tablets.

David

I am with Brantome on this and can't see that what he is suggesting crosses any of the barriers you suggest. Alexa's strategy appears (judging by CES) to encourage proliferation and connection into just about everything as they compete in the land grab with Google. But as ever it's difficult in a post to convey or fully understand each other

For instance Alexa has announced connectivity into Crestron which in turn controls and connects to all sorts of Home automation across the house.