Much has been said, generally for the worse, about the assistant that the Korean company Samsung officially presented together with the Samsung S8 in the first quarter of the year, an assistant that came to market only speaking Korean and thatit took a few months to learn English.
While Bixby is still in language school, the Korean company has presented at the company's Developer Conference in San Francisco, the second generation of its digital voice assistant: Bixby 2.0. This second generation is intended for smart home devices, devices that are becoming more popular with users.
Samsung wants to position Bixby as a direct competitor to Google Assistant and Amazon's Alexa, both of which are competing to try to lock consumers into their own hardware and software ecosystem, which traditionally Apple has always done. According to Samsung, Bixby will be able to process natural language and predict the needs of users, regardless of the device it is running on.
Bixby was created by the same developers of the Apple Siri assistant, but seeing the limitations that the company put on them in terms of the progress it could make, they decided to leave the company and create their own assistant, an assistant that according to the TechCrunch publication, the reference of the technological world, it is the best of all that we can currently find on the market. The only thing that he has are the languages he speaks.
Bixby will act as the control center for Samsung's product ecosystem, iincluding televisions, telephones, refrigerators, speakers, washing machines and other devices that are connected to the Internet. Samsung claims that Bixby, like Alexa and Google Assistant, is open for developers to connect existing applications and services At the moment the company has already taken the first step by launching the software development kit for Bixby.