Google Home Beats Amazon Echo in Q1 2018 Smart Speaker Shipments
I&#x27;m firmly in the &quot;hell nah&quot; camp:<p>1. Google and Amazon are pushing these with stupendous discounts, certainly below cost. That tells me that the revenue model is not the hardware. They hope to make money by manipulating me <i>after</i> I buy it. Nope.<p>2. Google injecting ads into the &quot;My Day&quot; information. Nope.<p>3. Google Home was found to be listening <i>all the time</i> due to a &quot;hardware flaw.&quot; Nope.<p>4. Amazon devices doing the creepy laugh for no reason? Nope. I mean, come ON.<p>They couldn&#x27;t pay me to incorporate one of these <i>things</i> into my living space. It&#x27;s below-cost hardware running bigcorp-controlled, remotely updatable software intended to extract my info and dollars. Get lost!