TORONTO — In the heated battle between Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft to get consumers hooked on their virtual assistants, Siri seems to be enjoying the first-mover advantage. Just shy of 40 per cent of Canadian adults recently used a virtual assistant, according to a report by the Media Technology Monitor, which polled almost 8,200 Canadians by phone late last year. “Siri famously had networking issues early on and now sort of doesn’t match up well against Alexa from Amazon or Google Assistant,” Ritchie said. He expected that Alexa’s usage numbers are likely higher today given Amazon’s recent push into Canada. “Amazon was slow in getting Alexa to Canada and when they did, it didn’t do very much at first.

Source: National Post May 22, 2018 14:48 UTC