Alexa Wants to Simplify the Skill Experience

Some 50K skills, but many of them rather pointless. Now if only they could only work together to create something very useful. The unworldliness of all this will cause it collapse.   Not to say the basics of playing music, managing lights and cameras isn't useful and even fun.   But you can't just continue to chop the basic pieces up into smaller ones. 

Its not much different in Google Home.  There I found I could ask questions of the assistant in German,  but she insisted on answering with snippets in English.    I want things that can talk, converse, do useful things when they work together or with people.  Insightful and coherent, so I come out of the interaction a little smarter.   I would take a few hundred skills, if they were the right ones.  So when are we planning delivery?

Amazon wants Alexa to figure out how to fulfill users’ without help from Skills   By AJ Dellinger in Digitaltrends

Amazon’s wildly popular voice assistant Alexa has managed to make herself invaluable to many people because of the wide range of abilities available through Alexa Skills. Now, Amazon is reportedly getting ready to kill off the feature — well, kind of — in favor of a system that will simplify the experience for users.  ... "