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The Problem With Digital Assistants

  • The Verge, Monday, February 1, 2016 11:38 AM
The Verge takes issue with increasingly ubiquitous digital “assistants” like Siri, Cortana, Alexa, Facebook M, and Google Now. “There's a problem that’s built into them: They only seem to work with certain parts of the web and -- here's the real rub -- certain apps,” it writes. “This isn’t a net neutrality issue, per se, but it does feel related.” To that end, “The original concept of net neutrality was underwritten by the pre-existence of open web standards.”

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