Episode 111: All about the Amazon Show and costs of IoT compute

Who’s buying an Echo Show? This week Kevin and I share our thoughts on Amazon’s latest device, which adds a screen to the Echo, video calling and more. We also talk about Apple buying Beddit presumably for sleep data, a new smart home product with a DARPA and Playground Studios pedigree and the industrial internet. Plus, we throw in a discussion on the economics of serverless computing as part of the launch of a new product from Yonomi. The Echo Show has a 7-inch screen. And Alexa! We have three guests this week. The number of our guests is three. (Props to all who read that as a Monty Python sketch.) We’re getting three different perspectives on the Echo Show, with the first from Mike Wolf, a smart home analyst and editor of The Spoon who discusses it as a kitchen device. Then we discuss design and the way we will interact with the smart home with Mark Rolston of argo design, and we finish with Jonathan Frankel, the CEO of Nucleus, which just saw its device replicated in Amazon’s new Echo Show. You’ll learn a bunch! Hosts: Kevin Tofel and Stacey Higginbotham Guests: Mike Wolf of The Spoon; Mark Rolston of argo design; and Jonathan Frankel of Nucleus Sponsor: Aeris Will Kevin buy the Amazon Show? Startup Lighthouse has a new take on personal assistants Apple buys sleep-sensing tech Amazon’s Echo Show was “inevitable” Amazon’s Echo Show was also a betrayal The post Episode 111: All about the Amazon Show and costs of IoT compute appeared first on IoT Podcast - Internet of Things.