Amazon Alexa and Google Home top App Store charts on Christmas Day, implies smart speakers were popular...
Amazon Alexa and Google Home top App Store charts on Christmas Day, implies smart speakers were popular holiday gifts
The App Store charts always provide some interesting nuggets of information on Christmas Day and other big holidays as you can see the sudden influx of app downloads. This year, the Alexa app for Amazon Echo smart speakers topped App Store free charts, hitting the #1 in a few regions, with Google Home also charting in the top ten. Smart speakers were a hot holiday shopping item this year for sure.
Ahead of the holidays, Amazon updated the original Echo with better sound, introduced a new Echo Spot alarm clock, and heavily marketed the devices on its website with significant discounts. Google launched the Google Home Mini providing its smart speaker ecosystem in a budget $29 offering.
These smart speakers have also been upping their game to become quite useful for nor only answering queries but controlling home devices with ease.
See http://bit.ly/2CaQbuf
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The App Store charts always provide some interesting nuggets of information on Christmas Day and other big holidays as you can see the sudden influx of app downloads. This year, the Alexa app for Amazon Echo smart speakers topped App Store free charts, hitting the #1 in a few regions, with Google Home also charting in the top ten. Smart speakers were a hot holiday shopping item this year for sure.
Ahead of the holidays, Amazon updated the original Echo with better sound, introduced a new Echo Spot alarm clock, and heavily marketed the devices on its website with significant discounts. Google launched the Google Home Mini providing its smart speaker ecosystem in a budget $29 offering.
These smart speakers have also been upping their game to become quite useful for nor only answering queries but controlling home devices with ease.
See http://bit.ly/2CaQbuf
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via IFTTT
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