Siri and Alexa are NOT Women!
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 6/16/2017 1:00:00 AM
Why did Amazon and Apple give their virtual assistants female names? They're NOT women!
One of the strangest things about Amazon's Alexa, and Apple's Siri was their decisions to give them female names. Why would they do that? They're just software programs, so they don't actually have ANY gender... so why choose female?
Clearly, both companies just wanted to "humanize" their products by giving them human names, but didn't they consider the fact that you can change the voice to either gender? It seems strange enough having a conversation with computer. Having that conversation with a device that speaks like a man, but answers to a female name is just plain stupid.
To make matters worse, Amazon not only picked a female name, but they decided to use Alexa, a very common name, which makes things very difficult for people named Alexa.
At least Google went in an entirely different direction, so their platform simple uses their own gender neutral name, so it answers you whenever you say "okay Google". Why didn't Apple and Amazon do likewise? They could've simple called their service "Kindle Fire", "Deep Thought", "Apple Cloud", or any of a thousand unique (gender neutral) names, but they dropped the ball on this.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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