You’ll often find that when a new product or service fails, there’s a line of people waiting to say, “I told you so.” But despite initially looking like absolute turkeys destined for the trash can, there have been plenty of predicted tech disasters that turned out to be successful. Here are some of the most memorable. Amazon Echo Alexa > Siri Digital voice assistants built into smartphones have their uses, but relatively few handset owners bother with them. So why would Amazon want to integrate the same kind of AI technology into a home Bluetooth speaker? Surely the Amazon Echo would suffer from the same complaint as smartwatches: why would anyone want one when their phone can do the same thing, if not better? And at least handsets have the advantage of a screen. It turns out, however, that people really enjoy asking Alexa to play music, read the news, and perform all those other skills the third parties started to integrate by the hundreds. Turns out controlling a slew of smart home devices with your voice is actually pretty cool. Just two years after release, the Echo had sold an estimated 5.1 million units. The success led to a… Read full this story
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