Prerak Trivedi, Postmates | Samsung Developer Conference 2017
Prerak Trivedi, Sr. Android Developer with Postmates, sits down with John Furrier at the Samsung Developer Conference at Moscone West in San Francisco, CA #SDC017 #theCUBE https://siliconangle.com/2018/01/19/cloud-and-smartphone-big-dogs-battle-for-everyday-ai-sdc2017/ Amazon competitors work smart A chink in Amazon’s armor of particular interest in AI assistance is its lack of a smartphone line. It fired a shot (pun intended) with its 2014 Fire and missed, garnering mostly poor reviews. Many people wish for the AI assistant on their phones to also act as the AI assistant across all their connected devices. Samsung is building in Bixby to its Galaxy phones and Apple Inc. is equipping iPhones with Siri. Is Alexa so much better that smartphone owners can be bothered to install and use it instead? Google Assistant has the lion’s share in smartphone installs with 46 percent, which is projected to shoot past 60 percent by 2022, according to Strategy Analytics Inc. Developers with a liking for the Android operating system (Samsung smartphones’ OS) might decide the Bixby SDK is a convenient helper for their mobile apps. The most recent Android 8.0 release is as good as it gets according to some developers, like Prerak Trivedi, senior Android developer at Postmates Inc. on-demand delivery service. “In my opinion, it’s surpassed Apple’s iOS platform,” he told theCUBE’s John Furrier, noting its multitasking and split-screen capabilities. He added that he could imagine Postmarks building an app with Bixby in the future.