Anyone knows the price for Amazon Echo Show? Think about it now.... What are your thoughts on the impact that this may have on our conferencing products - telepresence, Expressway, WebEx, Collaboration Meeting Rooms, this looks like a revolution... How about:
Ultra Low Price (Under $250)
Massive user footprint (millions of units to be sold in year 1)
Volume discounts
Price drops
Hmmm, it's a brave new world...
two amazon alexa echo show units for 360$, that is pretty aggressive. And don't forget telepresence is just ONE of the many function this units offers.
i agree with others on this thread noone would buy this as a sole telepresence unit but getting the large display, all of alexa and telepresence on top? That is an offer hard to beat.
cisco buying zoom? i don't think they want to sell to cisco, they are mostly the LR'd WebEx poeple... they want to kick some a-- and that is woirking pretty well, especially since noone wants spark.
@2dbc but Cisco can buy them ;)
Webex is horrible compared to the competition, I challenge anyone to use Zoom and find it worse - Webex feels tired and barely works in modern browsers now.
No one outside of Cisco has even heard of Spark. Slack is what our customers are talking about in that space.
These are two startups an established behemoth like Cisco can't even tackle, let alone big players like Microsoft and Google.
Nah, that's got CIUS written all over it.
It's a giant brick with a tiny screen that cost more than any other similar device and took far longer to release after it was publicly announced than the life cycles of all competing products? Perhaps you meant Umi where four months of service not including the cost of hardware was more than this device?
I have hard time beleiving[sic] they will sell a million units of this, if yes, all power to them...
A quick search shows the previous Amazon Echo devices without a display (which should be the giant hint that this is more than a telepresence device) have already sold nearly 11 million units in the US which at one per household would be nearly 9% of all US households. That doesn't include the devices from competitors and the rate of sales has been increasing rapidly.
Companies with many integrated capabilities like Amazon, Google, Apple and the straggler Microsoft are "changing the way we live, work, play and learn" while Cisco tries to sustain 67% margins on legacy boxes. Dig deeper into these products and you'll see relationships with IoT providers adding more challenges to Cisco.
I was going to say DX80 but surely it won't flop that hard.
Nah, that's got CIUS written all over it.
This is just going to be massive
AWS already have Amazon Chime that competes with Webex. Completely developed in house and will be the power behind Echo Show's video conf capability. Add a million consumers to and you have a compelling business reason to use it to interact with your customers. The future is Amazon. They are years ahead in retail and will do the same with the IT sector.
Many more products competing with webex including its own spark it's a saturated market.
It's actually $230 and shipped for free...
I have hard time beleiving they will sell a million units of this, if yes, all power to them...
Here is the product page or just search for this product ID B01J24C0TI
https://www.amazon.com/A/dp/B01J24C0TI