The prospect of being constantly surrounded by smart devices ready to listen in on your every conversation might fill many people with horror. But this is the future as imagined by Amazon — and it is arriving much faster than you might think.
Big Tech is flooding the market with gadgets. Selling hardware to act as a conduit for their digital services has become a strategy for all the consumer tech companies.
Facebook last week came out with the second generation of its Portal, a “smart screen” whose killer app is meant to be video calling. Google will shortly lay out its own array of personal gadgets for the coming holiday season, all of them designed to act as a platform for Google services.
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