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Ryan Hoover@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
This reminds me of Jibo, but with slightly less creepy factor. $199 (and $99 for prime members) seems reasonable. I hope they open an API so this can hook into my iOS devices and other tech in the home like Nest.
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Anton Troynikov@atroyn · http://troynikov.io
@rrhoover this and the Fire phone makes me wonder whether Amazon wants to follow a Google strategy in hardware, but in-house rather than acquisitions.
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Max Kirchoff@maxisnow · Dev Director, The Bold Italic
@rrhoover IMHO - Amazon APIs are pretty transparent even when not explicitly "open". Haven't messed with other Fire devices, but Kindle had some cool integrations off the bat.
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Lauren Stipe@got_glitter
@rrhoover this is really cool!
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Robert Mao@mave99a · Cofounder of PixoMobile.
@rrhoover API may expose more chance for malware or NSA to listen to the home... scary.
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Nick Zieber@nzieber · Community & Partnerships @whub_io
@mave99a I was going to add that as well... Nice try NSA. :)
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Robert Mao@mave99a · Cofounder of PixoMobile.
@rrhoover UBI (http://www.theubi.com/) is more similar, but with its $299 price tag, lame speaker it's less interesting.
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Yael Baifus@ahuvatiyael
@atroyn my thoughts exactly. They're trying really hard to keep up with google, but keeping it all in house isn't a smart differentiator...
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