Amazon Echo

“I think they're all going to go screen. I remember when Amazon announced the Echo device and it was so cool because it glowed at the top and talked to you. And we had Panos Panay from Amazon, head of devices and services, On the show in March, and he besieged …”

“Jeff wrote his own narrative about a device. He called the Amazon puck when I'm about to, this is crazy. When I'm about to read to you, he wrote in 2004. He is going to describe the Amazon echo, which is going to sell hundreds of millions of these things. The …”

“Jeff, Jeff wrote about a product, you know, there was a puck that sat on your, on the, in your kitchen that you would talk to and ask it for things and, you know, could shop from it. He wrote about that in 2004. Well, the technology wasn't there to be able to …”

“They have no incentive to fix that. Because, like, it reminds you that it's there and reminds you to talk to it.”

“I think the reason that they got it right where other people weren't was they basically built a device that literally assumed there was no screen.”

“I do believe that computing is moving from trapped in these little boxes, either a phone or a computer, and computing's moving to everywhere. It's everywhere around us, whether it's your Amazon Echo or different displays around your home, and who knows what's …”

“And of course they're all built with commodity components from the smartphone supply chain. There's no unique hardware technology in any of these things.”

“It's the future. I mean, it's a total taste of the future. I cannot tell you how excited I am about Echo. I have five in my house, literally. I've built applications for it myself. Finn has an incredible integration with it. It isn't there yet, but it's the be…”

“I absolutely see it increasing. I think what will drive it will be some of the things you just mentioned. Data, you know, increase in data, increase in bandwidth, connectivity of cars, absolutely. I also think, you know, improving the technology and voice reco…”

“I think a lot of the features on it right now are kind of delight, probably more than utility, but as they integrate more and more, I could definitely see it becoming a mainstream way of people to create interaction and kind of function in the physical world.”