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Re: Google Home

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Post by mason240 »

castis wrote: post #34
vox_mollis wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps, but bear in mind that Google is a PRISM partner, whereas Amazon is not. The NSA will likely record every sound from your house, if you own this. Edit: Downvoters, please educate me on where I am wrong. Thanks.

If I had to fathom a guess, your downvotes may spring from "The NSA will likely record every sound from your house". I don't know much on all the subjects that would converge over _the NSA storing all the audio from everyones house_ but it seems unlikely. Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about though.

I would guess the downvotes come from this:

>Perhaps, but bear in mind that Google is a PRISM partner, whereas Amazon is not.

We simply have no way of knowing, and our best guess is that the NSA/CIA/HS/FBI gets their own backdoor private APIs to any data source they want, Amazon included.

Re: Google Home

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Post by danielvf »

lazyjones wrote: post #51

What's the business model for Google Home? Will it suddenly splurt out an advertising message in the middle of the night, or will it rather include subtle product placements in otherwise harmless answers? Remember, it's made by a company that thinks it's appropriate to put text ads on the first spots of your search results, in increasingly confusing ways.

I doesn't have to have a business model. If voice activated devices turn out to be the future of search, and the voice device in your home is not made by Google, than Google is dead. Roughly speaking of course.

Re: Google Home

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Post by jluk »

swalsh wrote: post #40

As somoene who runs a small ecommerce company i'm really hoping the next platform is open, and not owned by Amazon (or Google). I sell products where purchasing them would be fantastic via a voice interface. If Amazon owns it though, there's no way I'm going to get any fraction of that business. The ownership of these voice platforms is a huge risk for market competition. The voice interface naturally lends itself to…

Sounds like what happened with messaging platforms in China. WeChat became the single bundled platform for mobile and thus got to play kingmaker with default service providers. I agree with your opinion, although it feels like a natural progression as the sheer number of services grows at a rapid pace and its the attempt to remove friction built up from the excessive overhead of choice.

Re: Google Home

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Post by codingdave »

vox_mollis wrote: post #11
free2rhyme214 wrote: post #10

Competition against Amazon Echo is always positive for consumers.

Perhaps, but bear in mind that Google is a PRISM partner, whereas Amazon is not. The NSA will likely record every sound from your house, if you own this. Edit: Downvoters, please educate me on where I am wrong. Thanks.

Odds are that you already have a phone near you, with a microphone. If they want to record you, they don't need a new device to do so.

Re: Google Home

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Post by [deleted] »

angryasian wrote: post #48
vox_mollis wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps, but bear in mind that Google is a PRISM partner, whereas Amazon is not. The NSA will likely record every sound from your house, if you own this. Edit: Downvoters, please educate me on where I am wrong. Thanks.

I personally think this is ignorant. Its already been proven several times that if the government wants access to a companies data they will get it. The shutdown of Lavabit has proven this. Marissa Mayer said explicitly thats its treason to not go along with the NSA. http://www.businessinsider.com/lavabit-founder-letter-2014-5 http://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-its-treason-to-...

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Re: Google Home

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Post by zitterbewegung »

I'm confident that Amazon won't kill off Alexa (due to its success). I am not so confident that if this isn't widely successful or even in the future this will be killed off just like Revolv and bricking the device . It is good that Alexa is getting competition though.

Re: Google Home

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Post by mason240 »

DarkContinent wrote: post #41
bbunqq wrote: post #8

You too can bring a slice of 1984 into your home with this lovely crafted listening device!

The difference between this product and 1984 is that we choose to install Google home into our places of residence for our own convenience. We are not forced into installing said software. That having been said, if Google chooses to release the data to the government, it has an obligation to tell us about that or it will be behaving unethically. As matters stand, however, this is just a new technology with pros and c…

Until being the only person without one is seen a sign of guilt.

Similar to bodycams for people like teachers or police. People argue they can wear them if they like to protect themselves against accusations, until they are so widely used that opting-out is not longer an option because it's seen a sign you are hiding something.

Re: Google Home

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Post by surfaceTensi0n »

supercanuck wrote: post #58
t0mbstone wrote: post #32

Please, please, please be a completely open, extensible platform... I want to be able to control my Apple TV with my Google Home device. I want to be able to control my Phillips Hue and LiFX bulbs. I want to be able to build my own custom home automation server endpoints and point my Google Home commands at them. I want to be able to remote start my car with a voice command. I want to be able to control my Harmony re…

I would love for it to connect my sonos and my spotify together, rather than having to run a node.js server for the purpose

Doesn't sonos already have integration with spotify? Or is that only available if you're paying for spotify?
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