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Last week Microsoft made it clear that Cortana would only work with Microsoft's browser and search products making people question its cross platform efforts. I think it is time to explore just what products like Cortana, Siri, and Alexa (the personality of Amazon's Echo, Dot, and Tap) are and just what they are not. To net this out Cortana and Siri were concepts created for products that primarily had touch, mouse, and/or keyboard interfaces and Alexa was created for a class of products that just have voice. A new and unsettling movement is taking place in the content markets, and it's focused around one of America's most hated companies: Comcast. Over the past 13 years, Apple has been one of the most successful companies in the world of tech, posting sales growths in 51 straight quarters. That streak has finally come to an end, with Apple projecting a decline in sales. What's worse is that this does not appear to be a problem that will correct itself right away, and could last throughout the rest of this year. One of the great downsides to having a lot of content in any one place is that, after a while, it starts looking downright pointless to add more. It has been a year and change since the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) declared stronger rules for the Internet by reclassifying broadband access under Title II. Shortly thereafter, the PR machines of the telecommunications industry pumped out tales of woe both directly through their associations and via various paid surrogates. Apple's 13 percent sales decline and subsequent stock price drop this week has lead to the usual crazy talk about how to fix the company. Vivek Wadhwa has suggested the radical move of Apple buying Tesla and installing Elon Musk as the visionary white knight to save the company, least it follow the footsteps of HP and Compaq. I've never been a big fan boy and have long noted the long slowdown in innovations coming out of the company, but Apple doesn't need such a radical fix and I doubt Musk would be interested. Besides, there's a better M&A fit than Tesla. Travel may be starting to make a bit of a comeback, as a new report suggests that shared-space providers like Airbnb and WeWork are on the rise. In sports there are many tales of epic heroism, from Madison Square Garden erupting when Willis Reed walked out of the tunnel in game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals, Carlton Fisk's walk-off homerun in the 1975 World Series, Christian Laettner's buzzer-beater against Kentucky or even Curt Schilling's bloody sock game. The Amazon Echo, not the Apple Watch, became the last iPod-like product largely because of a far more accessible price point, a more compelling name, and a far stronger interoperability argument. In fact, I could argue the Echo, which likely had a bunch of ex-Apple folks working on it, is closer to something Steve Jobs would have supported than the Apple Watch. But what is coming after the Echo and all its siblings? It could be the rumored next generation Apple Watch or something very different.
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