News - 24/04/2017

Spotify is working its own hardware, inspired by Amazon’s Echo

Spotify is working its own hardware, inspired by Amazon’s Echo

Spotify is determined to launch its own music hardware and will be inspired by Amazon’s voice-activated Echo speaker. The news has been revealed in an online job listing from the streaming company for a Stockholm-based Senior Product Manager for Hardware.

In the ad, Spotify says it wants to create a “category-defining product akin to Pebble Watch, Amazon Echo, and Snap Spectacles”.

Amazon’s Echo, as most in the music business will now know, is a voice-activated speaker (or speaker add-on, in the case of the Echo Dot), which is powered by Amazon’s AI assistant, Alexa. The Snap Spectacles, meanwhile, are a pair of sunglasses that allow users to record 10 seconds of video which they can then easily share online. Pebble Watch, widely categorized as the first commercially successful smartwatch, was a precursor to the Apple Watch.

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