Still, lots of people feel differently, given that the Amazon Echo is leading the still -
small smart speaker market.
Not exact matches
But Amazon virtually created the
smart speaker market with its Echo line years ago and in 2017 extended that lineup to include the
smaller Echo Dot, as well as the Echo Plus, and the Echo Show.
But because there are so few great - sounding
smart speakers currently on the
market, these two will inherently get lumped together until Apple creates a
smaller speaker or Sonos adds voice assistant functionality to the Play: 3.
And the way things in that
market are going, it's going to be a battle of which music streaming service has a
smart speaker or can be on one, leaving the
smaller players out in the cold to wither and die.
The company reportedly believed that Amazon dominated the global
market and that the Korean
market was too
small for a
smart speaker to make any profits.