The Amazon Echo is a pretty basic idea – a speaker for the home, with an voice-controlled AI assistant that can answer questions, add items to your shopping list or play music. The tech industry at large seems to have taken to the Echo – and Amazon’s Alexa digital assistant – and now we’re seeing other major firms work to get their own Echo alternative on the market. Google announced Home, its own speaker-cum-AI last week, and now a new report suggests that Apple is working on exactly the same thing. Here’s what we know so far.
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I stopped by to watch the the release of the iPhone 4S at the Apple store in Birmingham. The Apple Store employees ran down the 250 metre long queue, shouting and hollering in the minutes leading up to eight o’clock. As the moment grew closer, the employees began a countdown. When it reached zero, they […]