Good in-home AI, Dave Limp tells us, is: conversational, lives in the real world and not a browser, is personalized just to you, has personality, and trustworthy. A pretty good list, actually.
Also, Limp proved his first point with an uncomfortable silence about the length of an Alexa delay, which was pretty great.
These events are funny — sometimes it’s an hour-long avalanche of gadgets, where Amazon is like, “this cabinet has Alexa, is that anything?” Other times it’s more measured and thoughtful, Amazon shipping products it thinks people will actually buy. This year, given the way the economy is going and what’s been happening within Amazon’s devices team, I’d bet on the more austere side of things this year. But here’s hoping for a little chaos too.
We’re about a half-hour out from the start of Amazon’s big fall device launch event, and a few of us spent a chunk of our morning on a tour of Amazon’s new headquarters. It’s... a headquarters! But there is a food truck outside that exists just for handing out free bananas, so that’s pretty great. Amazon food truck innovation, y’all.
All three co-hosts were together in the studio for once! And we used the opportunity to talk Threads, Unity, TikTok, Bing, and what we talk about when we talk about search engines. Turns out maybe nobody really knows.
Sorry this week’s episode is a little late! But it’s a good one — we definitively did not solve the Thread mystery, but we have some ideas. And we don’t exactly know what a general search engine is, either, but we have some thoughts on what’s been happening in the biggest antitrust trial in two decades. It’s The Vergecast!
