The "Ok Google/Google Now" voice interactivity (or whatever the official name is) on Android phones is much better than Amazon's Alexa/Echo. It actually remembers context from sentence to sentence so you can say "What is the population of Chicago" and it will answer. Then you can say, "How long would it take me to drive there?" And it understands that you are still talking about Chicago.
Every interaction with Alexa is command, response, and that really limits what you can do with it.
There's nothing about Alexa's API that would prevent doing that, it already has the concept of a conversation and I think we'll see raid improvement in how people make use of that.
I agree. I'm just surprised that none of the base functions provided by Amazon take advantage of it. Compered to google it feels really basic and limited. I saw this as the owner of two Alexa's who uses them a lot. I'm constantly frustrated by the limitations even though it works well for certain things.
Every interaction with Alexa is command, response, and that really limits what you can do with it.