Amazon entered the market as a book distributor and then retail market and then the server and cloud market. Right now they're going against the mobile phone market and it's dominated with Google and Apple. They open sourced the alexa sdk to commerical hardware makers and they want to democratize alexa quickly to be the first mover in the market. They did it by allowing developers to create skills.
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