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Google & Amazon – Battle for the home pt. VI

Reply to this post           Opportunities to break in are fast disappearing Google seems to be closing on in launching a Google Home based product with...

Essential Products – Long road home.

Reply to this post           Home is where the heart is. Essential Products is clearly struggling with its Essential Phone which I think will probably lead...

Google – Brain boxes

Reply to this post           Clever devices are useless without volume. Behind the carefully orchestrated event was a series of strategies aimed at driving penetration of...

Amazon vs. Everyone – Battle for the home pt. V

Reply to this post           Amazon goes better, smaller cheaper. Amazon has raised the bar in the digital assistants battle right before Google’s hardware event on...

Google vs. Amazon – Battle for the home pt. IV.

Reply to this post           Amazon increases its aggressive land grab.  Not content to sit on 70% market share, Amazon is aggressively compensating for the lack...

Home vs. Echo – Battle of the Home pt. III.

Reply to this post           Google has everything to do. Google is great at getting third parties to build hardware that uses its software, but needs...

Facebook – Empty head

Reply to this post           Another smart speaker that badly needs a brain. It looks like Facebook is joining the ever more crowded smart speaker bandwagon,...

Baidu – Talking machines.

Reply to this post           The way in China is wide open for Baidu. Baidu’s strategy around its AI platform and its Duer OS has become...

Alibaba – Virgin home

Reply to this post           Another day, another home assistant. Alibaba is moving to launch a home speaker, much like Amazon Echo, that should direct users...

Google vs. Amazon – Battle of the Home pt II.

Reply to this post           Alexa still ahead despite very poor performance. New data suggests that Google Assistant is even more superior to Amazon Alexa than...