Ish Limkakeng, a vice president in Cisco's switching group, said the company "takes all competitors very seriously".
(Google declined to comment for this article, other than to say in a statement that it takes all competitors seriously).
Marcus W. Brauchli, executive editor of The Post, says the paper takes all competitors seriously, but "much of what they aspire to do, we already do, and do well".
"We take all our competitors seriously, but people have invested billions in storage without getting much traction".
They are the masters of the platform, and Google can basically take down all competitors if it wants to.
Including prices allows competitors to take all of the traffic if their price is cheaper, even if just by a single dollar.
For 26 years of a 40-year career, through three bouts with cancer, and other afflictions and distractions, Calhoun badgered and bullied his Connecticut program to dizzying heights, taking on all competitors, including critics who so much as looked at him cross-eyed.
While the market itself is not expected to be a winner-take-all scenario, competitors like Amazon and Google will win entire homes, as most consumers have said they wouldn't consider buying a competing device once they already own one voice-controlled speaker.
The huge phonetic databases that sit beneath its speech engines would take a competitor many years to compile.
