Will Google Use IoT to Kill the Phone?

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Will Google Use IoT to Kill the Phone?
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These devices are now only bought by professionals, traditionalists and hardcore enthusiasts, because the rest of us rely on our phones to do the job of a camera.
The internet of things is touted as being a key new source of revenue for telcos, but if everything is networked, customers will no longer need devices whose value primarily stems from its network connection.
There has been tremendous liberalization of the market since then, beginning with the telephone, the device at the edge of the network.
Whilst RCS is supported by over 50 operators, Google could use this protocol to route messages through their own systems, bypassing telcos as much as possible.
Google Home is their version of Amazon Echo, a device which is connected to the internet, possesses a microphone and loudspeaker, and which can understand spoken instructions.
However, Google developed Android, whilst Amazon does not make an operating system for mobile phones.
16mn is small compared to the over 250mn mobile handsets used by Americans, but there is obvious potential if over 50mn homes already own a networked device that could be used to transmit voices.
Meanwhile, they can leverage their investment in Android to incorporate the same kind of voice and messaging functionality into other IoT devices.
Just as there were few mobile phone manufacturers who could compete with the Android operating system, manufacturers of IoT devices with microphones and speakers are unlikely to resist an offer of enhanced communications functionality if it comes from Google.
The difference is that Android gave Google influence over devices, but not over networks.
Their new connectivity strategy will see them competing with carriers at the core of all-IP networks as well profiting from the sale of devices connected to the edge

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