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It's not dying at all - it's an incredibly useful interaction style.

Those companies are failing to profit because they don't understand that a digital assistant needs to be working with me, locally, and not subverting my intent.

It just needs to be my device, and not a sales rep for google/amazon. I use voice controls all the time at home - it's astoundingly useful in all sorts of situations, and I'm not even disabled (where it's literally life changing in some cases).



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