I'm interested in someone's POV on Amazon's skill-forward approach - relying on third parties to create skills that are actually good, and then helping them talk to each other - compared to Google Assistant's approach, which seems to be focused on first-party capabilities as the Actions on Google ecosystem is not so developed.
I think both have their merits and it surprises me that both of them don’t do more of what the other one is doing. First party skills are a great way to make the platform more integrated and useful for the user but third-party is a great way to expand an ecosystem of skills they’ve never thought Of.
With their moves with Nest I don't think Google's play is to be a platform... But rather they want to own all of that stuff and tell you what to do with it. They want to be an agent and not a platform.
They do, but that move surprises me. You would think they’d want to be a platform so they could collect data that they didn’t even think about collecting. They could still own the data even if they were a platform they would just have to share little chunks of it with different third-parties.
Isn't that what Yahoo was trying to do when Google replaced them? Historically, it seems like minimal platforms for content tend to win out over attempts to completely control the user experience.
