{"id":187,"date":"2016-03-24T21:08:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T21:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/currentlytechie.com\/?p=187"},"modified":"2016-03-24T21:08:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T21:08:58","slug":"report-google-building-amazon-echo-competitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ct.lanickel.com\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"Report: Google building Amazon Echo competitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everywhere, there has been a lot of great reviews and a lot of news about the Amazon Echo, the in-home voice assistant. According to\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/inside-tony-fadells-struggle-to-build-nest\" target=\"_blank\">The<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/inside-tony-fadells-struggle-to-build-nest\" target=\"_blank\"> Information<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Google is working on a new product that is similar to the Amazon Echo, but they have not offered any of thep [potential] product&#8217;s features, pricing, looks, release time, or anything. This little tidbit of information comes from a report from Nest, which was acquired by Google in 2014. It is part of a report that says that Nest has &#8220;stalled&#8221; innovation. Currently, they offer two major products, the Nest Protect, Nest Thermostat, and Nest Dropcam.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<em>The Information,<\/em> Nest has requested to be part of this project, but it appears that it was turned away by the team at Google leading this effort. Nest&#8217;s product line has slowed to an almost halt since the ownership of Google. \u00a0The report says that Tony Fadell&#8217;s oversight of the company can be to blame. He tends to apply constant pressure to rework features and make designs better.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon Echo has been a huge success for Amazon, earning spectacular reviews and outstanding sales. This device is still getting new features and more advanced things through new firmware.<\/p>\n<p>It is not likely, but it could be announced at this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/currentlytechie.com\/io-2016\/\">I\/O conference<\/a> coming up in May.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Header image thanks to The Verge<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everywhere, there has been a lot of great reviews and a lot of news about the Amazon Echo, the in-home voice assistant. According to\u00a0The Information,\u00a0Google is working on a new product that is similar to the Amazon Echo, but they have not offered any of thep [potential] product&#8217;s features, pricing, looks, release time, or anything. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ct.lanickel.com\/?p=187\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Report: Google building Amazon Echo competitor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ct.lanickel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ct.lanickel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ct.lanickel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ct.lanickel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ct.lanickel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ct.lanickel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ct.lanickel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ct.lanickel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ct.lanickel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ct.lanickel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}