Amazon's Alexa Moves in on Google's Android System
I think this exposes a bit of a flaw in Google&#x27;s rollout of their &#x27;Assistant&#x27;; they only released it to Pixel devices early on which has alienated Nexus owners (or at the very least this Nexus owner).<p>I have both a Google Home and an Amazon Echo; the Echo shows some real strengths from its early lead -- a lot more connected and a lot of baked in bespoke interactions. The Home has Google&#x27;s existing work on knowledge graphs built in and is surprisingly good at knowledge based queries (today I asked both &#x27;what is a normal heart rate&#x27;; Google answered with some &#x27;According to Mayo Clinic...&#x27; answer and the Echo said &#x27;I dont know how to respond&#x27;).<p>The thing CES this past week showed me is that the battle lines are being drawn. Amazon has a <i>lot</i> more partnerships rolling out; the only one I saw for Google was with the Shield, which is mainly because it&#x27;s running Android TV.<p>I don&#x27;t know which will win out. If I had my druthers, both would be available on 3rd party hardware -- I want to know that they are listening when I explicitly want them to listen, and I don&#x27;t trust their own proprietary hardware to do so.