Alexa Has 80,000 Skills And None You Need

摘要

Kevin Deakin and his colleagues at his online trivia startup were one of the first to get a version of Amazon.com Inc.'s Echo smart speaker customized so that outsiders could create software for it. They'd gone less than a block after leaving the company's Seattle headquarters before coming to a decision. "We looked at this device and said, 'We've got to be on here,'" Deakin recalls. "It doesn't matter if we make any money."