Google's new leader debuted their competitor to Echo & FB Messenger yesterday...

at Google I/O...and there wasn't a single post here about it that I could tell. That's kind of amazing to me to be honest.

The troublesome part I take from this is that while Google's done as much-if not more-with machine learning/AI, voice and image recognition, etc., the fact that delivery dates-or even delivery estimates-weren't provided at I/O means that while they may have this technology in the pipeline, they aren't ready to ship it just yet.

With the admittedly massive amounts of time, money and expertise they've thrown into this, it comes off as if Google is reacting to Amazon's success with Echo as opposed to debuting tech they were always planning to ship.

In other words, Google did not plan for this. They're equipped to compete-and without question they can win-in this game, but they didn't realize it had started until way, way late.

Google Home & Google Allo

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At its I/O developer conference, the company unveiled a series of new products centered around the company's core competency: Unrivaled search and machine intelligence systems.

You can't use a single one of those products today, though. Unlike earlier years, Google's big reveals were previews — products launching "later this year" — not immediate launches.

And the most significant announcements — personal assistant tech and smart messaging apps — are products that Google rivals Amazon, Apple and Facebook already have out in the market.

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Echo & Messenger have serious disruptive potential for the Mother's Milk of Alphabet's core profit generator: Google Search and Ad revenue. They're way, way ahead of Google here, and they represent an existential threat to the one thing Google's made staggering sums of money off of over the better part of the past two decades.

Google better get these things right. Another Google Wave, Google Hangout, Google+, Google Glass or Google/Nest and things could get interesting.