Amazon Open To Bringing Siri Onto The Echo

As it stands the Amazon Echo and other Echo-related devices are powered by Amazon’s Alexa AI. With Google, their devices use Google Assistant, and Apple’s recently launched HomePod is powered by Siri. This makes sense as all these technologies are proprietary to the company that made them.

However it seems that Amazon isn’t opposed to the idea that maybe one device could house more than one AI software. Speaking to CNET, Amazon’s senior vice president of devices David Limp stated that the company is open to the idea that maybe other software such as Siri or Google Assistant could be installed in the Echo.

Limp was quoted as saying, “We’re open to that. If Apple or Google want to come call, my phone number is out there. They can call. I hope there is a day when that happens. I don’t know if I can envision it, but I hope it happens, on behalf of customers.” Given how in the past Apple has been accused of having a walled garden strategy, it’s hard to imagine that they would want to encourage customers to buy another company’s product to access its services.

Google might be a different story, although there is no indication that the company plans on collaborating with Amazon anytime soon. It’s an interesting approach but what do you guys think? Do you like the idea that you could buy an Echo speaker that came with Alexa, Siri, or Google Assistant?

Tyler Lee
Categories: Apple, Gadgets
Tags: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Alexa, Amazon, echo, Siri