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Apple released the HomePod earlier this month, marking the company's official entry into the nascent smart speaker market dominated by Amazon and Google.

The smart speaker market will evolve rapidly in the next few years, with more devices featuring screens, a variety of more focused products emerging, and eventually, the voice assistant moving beyond the smart speaker.

Finally, the report draws some inferences from our data about the direction the smart speaker market could take from here.

The Amazon Echo and Google Home are both on sale for $ 79.99 this holiday season, so if you've been waiting to choose a smart speaker for your home, wait no longer.

Although we already have a full buying guide to the best smart speakers, we thought it'd be fun and helpful to pit the Google Home and the Amazon Echo against each other in a battle royale for the title of best smart home speaker.

You might as well just buy a great regular speaker if you use something like Spotify — or better yet, a smart speaker that can control Spotify with your voice, like, say, the Sonos One.

Keep scrolling to see which smart speaker wins each category and to read our final verdict on which one you should buy.

Now, by most measures, the Amazon Echo is dominating the smart speaker market.

Now is a great time to buy a smart speaker because the Amazon Echo and Google Home are on sale for $ 79.99 for a limited time.

Before the HomePod, other smart speakers like Google Home, Amazon's Echo, and the Sonos One were playing music from Spotify, Google Music, Pandora, Amazon Prime Music, and other streaming services.

Already, 4K sets have proven to be a valuable market; they accounted for far more sales dollars last year than wearable devices, smart home appliances, and smart speakers.

But what's the point of a great - sounding smart speaker if you don't use the «smart» part?

There is a trade - off when you buy a smart speaker like the Amazon Echo or Google Home.

Apple's HomePod looks likely to find a place in the smart speaker market but won't dominate its space like the iPhone or iPad did.

I haven't heard it myself, but the HomePod supposedly has the best sound out of any other smart speaker.

Amazon has the advantage of several years of smart speaker know - how under its belt.

First up: Google now says that Assistant, its rival to Amazon's Alexa, is on 400 million devices, including the Google Home smart speakers, certain Android phones like the Google Pixel 2, and other Google - powered gadgets.

When it's released next month, Apple's HomePod will only work on the iCloud account owned by the person that set it up out of the box, Refinery29 reported on Wednesday after having the opportunity to briefly take the smart speaker for a spin.

It sounds fantastic on its own, and even better when compared to other high - end smart speakers on the market.

While Amazon's Alexa software is intended primarily for smart speakers and home assistants, the voice - assisted feature is also compatible with smartphones.

Apple began selling its HomePod smart speaker last week and, between mixed reviews and a furniture staining issue, it hasn't been the company's smoothest launch.

And we likely won't have answers to all of those questions until the smart speaker hits store shelves on February 9.

Executives at the event also touted Spotify's early entrance to the smart speaker market on Amazon's Echo devices (Apple's version was just recently released).

Facebook is also working on a slew of smart speakers.

The social media giant is working on at least one other product — a standalone smart speaker that would compete with the Amazon Echo and Google Home, said the people, who asked not be named discussing unannounced products.

Amazon's personal assistant Alexa was first announced in November 2014 alongside the Echo, Amazon's smart speaker.

This Canadian introduction comes a week after Amazon announced that the devices and the Alexa assistant were launching in Japan, indicating that the company is continuing to push for expansion of its Echo smart speakers.

Amazon is doing great with its Echo smart speakers, but completely flopped with the Fire smartphone.

In the coming months, owners of the Google Home smart speaker will be able to ask Google Assistant — the AI system embedded in Google's devices — to find the closest store with a particular item in stock.

In fact, it bears a quite a few similarities to another smart speaker on the market: the $ 100 Amazon Echo.

If that happens, the Sonos One will be the logical choice for anyone looking for a smart speaker, but it isn't there yet.

Many marketers said Facebook's foray seemed a little too late considering that Amazon and Google's smart speakers already have a robust ecosystem of apps.

Amazon has brought its Echo line of smart speakers and the Alexa voice assistant to Canada, reports Engadget.

Having a smart speaker potentially listening to what customers say at home could have drawn new attention to the user data issue.

Facebook is considering launching its smart speakers internationally first to avoid U.S. public scrutiny of data privacy issues, sources say.

I got a demo of the HomePod's comparison with other leading smart speakers on the market, and the Echo has one similar advantage when it comes to the sound: Since the speaker wraps around the entire device, it sounds the same no matter where you're standing, much like the HomePod.

Now that the HomePod is finally for sale, newer versions of smart speakers sold by Google and Sonos are also offering better sound quality compared to older models, noted Consumer Reports.

Google is reportedly working on a competitor to Amazon's sleeper hit, the smart speaker Echo, that could respond to voice commands.

Facebook is mulling a plan to sell its upcoming smart speakers internationally before launching them in the U.S., as American users and politicians have increased their focus on Facebook and user privacy, according to two people who have had discussions with the company about the devices.

Both are recommended in our smart speaker buying guide.

Companies around the world, meanwhile, have introduced smart speakers of their own that speak local languages, like Xioami's Mi AI, Kakao's Mini, and LINE's Clova Wave.

Google was late to the market with its smart speaker, which it started selling in the U.S. in November 2016, more than a year after Amazon's Echo became widely available in the U.S..

If you're looking for a smart speaker that can do internet searches for you, handle complex requests, manage your email and calendar, place calls, and essentially act as your phone while you're at home, the HomePod is not the device for you.

Amazon can literally hear what's going on in your living room — or your bedroom, if you have an Echo smart speaker in there.

Google's answer to the Echo, the Google Home, is capable of controlling many of the same smart home accessories as Amazon's smart speaker, in addition to members of the Google Chromecast family.

Google's latest home assistant — the Home Mini — is a $ 49 smart speaker that is about the size of a donut.

If true, a Google Home device with a screen would be similar to Amazon's Echo Show device, which is essentially an Echo smart speaker with a display.

Wright estimated that about 35 million smart speakers had been installed worldwide as of a couple of weeks ago — not including US Christmas sales.

At IO, Google announced a slick new smart speaker and a jacket that controls your phone, but didn't make a peep about its Glass efforts, which now fall under a division called Project Aura.

Nest currently operates as a standalone company under the Alphabet umbrella, but there's a significant amount of overlap between Nest's business — smart thermostats, home security systems, doorbell cameras, and smoke detectors — and Google's hardware division, which includes the Google Home smart speaker and the Pixel smartphone.