Panay: New form factors shift specific jobs rather than killing legacy devices
Panos Panay · Amazon's Panos Panay: The Reality of Building Alexa Plus and AI Assistants · Oct 23, 2025 · at 35:07
Panos Panay, Amazon's Head of Devices and Services, discusses the history of device transitions from mainframes and desktops to smartphones and future ambient AI wearables.
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“What happens is the job moves, the appropriate job moves from device to device to device.”
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