Plenty of companies are playing in the smart home space, making smart locks, cameras, motion sensors, and the like, but Amazon appears to be the most successful in providing the glue to connect all of these different elements together: that glue is Alexa, and it is spreading further and faster than its rivals, which is going to have big implications.



It’s still early days, but I think Alexa has a good shot at becoming one of the standard interfaces, certainly for consumers — an operating system for the home, if not more, if the automotive tie-ups take off too. All of this will make Amazon a serious force to be reckoned with. Windows has the desktop, and Android and iOS can fight it out for the smartphone, but right now Alexa has a lock on the smart home.

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