Although you've likely seen them advertised or on the shelves of your local electronics store, you may not be intimately familiar with the Bluetooth
speaker gadget market.
Not exact matches
But Google is behind in the race, with its
speaker only hitting the
market in November and compatible with a handful of
gadgets beyond Nest and Dropcam, which the company also owns.
The development is interpreted as a conscious move to penetrate the emerging Internet of Things
market in the United States as both companies are now pushing to promote their offerings while consumers still see smart
speakers as a novelty and are more likely to purchase such
gadgets on an impulse, especially when encountering steep discounts.
The HomePod comes into a smart
speaker market that is dominated by Amazon Alexa
gadgets.
The HomePod comes into the smart
speaker market that includes a range of
gadgets, from affordable to high - end.
The HomePod comes into the smart
speaker market that already has various options for customers, including
gadgets from Amazon, Google and Sonos.
The
gadget essentially becomes a smart
speaker, which makes one to wonder what else is Apple planning for the home
speaker market.
Technically, Apple's Senior Vice President of Worldwide
Marketing didn't even directly go after the two smart
speakers in his interview with
Gadgets 360, (un --RRB- subtly suggesting they lack any sort of real - world value in his eyes.
While the HomePod released months after the Google Home Max, the two
gadgets are now directly competing with each other in the high - end segment of the smart
speaker market.
Amazon, for its part, has been interested in the smart home
market for a good while now, and adding more
gadgets beyond smart
speakers makes sense.