It means his assistant, Paul Anderson, will have to wait for at least another 12 months for his expected promotion but it will allow Brown to complete what was supposed to be a three-year project when he joined the club.
"I was told that the blood sample will be used for genomic research, but I do not know exactly what genomics means" (Research assistant, female).
One research assistant noted: "I was told that the blood sample will be used for genomic research, but I do not know exactly what genomics means" (Research assistant, female).
It also doesn't mean that Assistant has to be conversational – in most cases I've found that it really isn't, at least not in a way that tries to truly mimic human conversation.
This afternoon Luke quit his job as a property broker, so Leah, a legal assistant, means to pick up the bill.
Did she notice Frances, the stranger at Lynn's funeral who briefly turned when she came in and was shocked to see her? It'll certainly be useful if she has memorised her face, because Frances's uncanny success in finding work as Ryan's teaching assistant means they're bound to meet soon.
That means improved personal assistant performance and all sorts of other improvements to existing features.
A successful assistant means getting users to buy into an ecosystem, buy more hardware and offer up a ton of that contextual data that companies love so much.
So, in future, it may end up that enabling one voice assistant means being able to get in touch with any of them — at least, that's Jeff Bezos' prediction.
"These are people that are important to what America means," says Don Ball, assistant director of public affairs at the NEA.
