Amazon released its one-click, one-purchase Dash Buttons and its voice-activated Echo just months apart in 2015, but the latter has emerged as not only the media darling of the two but the vastly more versatile form of in-home commerce for the online giant.
In addition to Amazon-developed apps that stretch Alexa’s capabilities far beyond its original scope, third-party developers are scrambling to get their own voice-activated portals up and running on the device so consumers can say the word and have anything from a pizza to an Uber delivered straight to their doors.
