I read the headline of this article, and immediately had some thoughts:
I saw this coming a mile away, and I don’t know that there will ever be a “killer app” for these devices.
- Discovery: Installing the apps is relatively inconveneint / out of the way
- Usability: Using them is awkward (“Alexa, tell
<app>
<thing>
”) - Recall: An audio-based interface gives no opportunity to prompt you that an app you’ve installed even exists
- Crapflooding: A gold rush can drown out the gems.