Name: This Old App 10: Appraising Alexa (and other voice interfaces) by CTO Think in This Old App Podcast
Duration: 54 min 25 s
Description: We talk about Alexa development, the strong developer ecosystem Amazon is investing for it, some of the privacy problems it's facing, and a few quips about Apple, Google, Microsoft, and even Samsung.

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This Old App Podcast

We talk about Alexa development, the strong developer ecosystem Amazon is investing for it, some of the privacy problems it's facing, and a few quips about Apple, Google, Microsoft, and even Samsung.

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This Old App 10: Appraising Alexa (and other voice interfaces)

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