Sounds great that it benefits end users. But what's the end goal? Like, I understand the point of cross selling so that you keep your users sticky doing more things on the platform, but Amazon/Microsoft won't be happy as 'Yet another Assistant', they want to have the monopoly and at some point, they will have to fight each other.
The description of the "Alexa, Open Cortana" or "Cortana, open Alexa" voice commands as "awkward" makes it sound like this evolve over time.<p>Funny thought: isn't this how the plot for the movie "Her" goes? <spoiler>All of the AIs join together.</spoiler>
On a sidenote, interestingly enough since I installed the iOS 11 beta, I haven’t used my echo dot nearly as much.<p>Hey Siri, do this works well enough and is a little more practical since I always have my phone. She can do a lot of the same basic stuff like turn on lights, etc.<p>Bonus she can play songs from apple music.