Tech Tonic | Amazon has no clue what to do with Alexa, and the Echo family

Amazon, this week, announced their Q3 results. On a macro view, you’d probably find all seems well. I wasn’t so sure, and dug a little deeper. Conspicuous by its absence in the financial report was any significant mention of the Echo smart devices. Of which Amazon has quite a few up for sale. Andy Jassy, Amazon president and CEO, did specifically reference the Kindle e-readers, Prime Big Deal Days, some fixtures on Prime Video, and “100 new cloud infrastructure and AI capabilities that we’ll share at AWS re:Invent.” Someone has to say it. Amazon has blown its first mover advantage.