Google might also be coming into your house really soon
- 8 years ago
Google CEO Sundar Pichai presented Google Home, the company's answer to Amazon Echo.
Then came Allo and Duo, a pair of messaging apps that look well poised to compete with the likes of WhatsApp and Apple's FaceTime.
Home is basically a clone of the Amazon Echo, but one of the Echo's weaknesses is that very little of our digital lives is lived on Amazon, so it relies on connections to other services to offer that full picture.
With Allo, Google may finally give people a reason to use a Google messaging app instead of Snapchat, WhatsApp, Slack, Viber or one of the many other messaging apps, all of which seem to work better than Hangouts.
All of this, if it works, translates into more users spending more time in Google services — a trend that, as our reliance on traditional search declines, often points the other way.
Then came Allo and Duo, a pair of messaging apps that look well poised to compete with the likes of WhatsApp and Apple's FaceTime.
Home is basically a clone of the Amazon Echo, but one of the Echo's weaknesses is that very little of our digital lives is lived on Amazon, so it relies on connections to other services to offer that full picture.
With Allo, Google may finally give people a reason to use a Google messaging app instead of Snapchat, WhatsApp, Slack, Viber or one of the many other messaging apps, all of which seem to work better than Hangouts.
All of this, if it works, translates into more users spending more time in Google services — a trend that, as our reliance on traditional search declines, often points the other way.