All of it is because investment in Q4 of last year was lower than any Q after 2012.
Which is a ridicules reason given that Q3 was by far the highest ever.
With that being said given the state of the public market (going down + low dividends) startups will still look sexy for a long time. I wouldn't worry about it.
This is actually not an issue at all, because even with native apps you can still load content from the web which apple has no control over, which is similar to Alexa.
But the big deal that no one talks about is that Alexa is not compatible with EC2 backends, this is the most bizarre limitation I've ever seen, you can host An Alexa app on your own PC at home, but not on EC2.
Which is a ridicules reason given that Q3 was by far the highest ever.
With that being said given the state of the public market (going down + low dividends) startups will still look sexy for a long time. I wouldn't worry about it.