{"id":4823,"date":"2016-05-19T09:02:21","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T23:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=4823"},"modified":"2016-05-19T09:02:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T23:02:21","slug":"google-announce-their-amazon-echo-competitor-home-at-io-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/google-announce-their-amazon-echo-competitor-home-at-io-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Google announce their Amazon Echo competitor “Home” at I\/O conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Like Amazon Echo, Google Home is an always-listening piece of hardware that allows users to issue commands using natural language. The hardware will launch later this year, though Google has yet to announce a price.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Demonstrated by Google at its annual I\/O conference, Home allows users to control connected devices in their home, get answers from Google, stream music, and more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In what appears to be a direct rip-off of Amazon’s Echo lineup Home offers little to no advantage bar being a part of the Google family – that I can see.<\/p>\n

As my Reckoner compatriot James Croft says<\/a> – a killer feature would be Sonos integration.\u00a0Unfortunately I don’t see that happening, not immediately anyway, Chromecast is where their streaming allegiance lies. Naturally so.<\/p>\n

Source: I\/O 2016: Google’s new Home hardware takes on Apple’s HomeKit and Siri<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like Amazon Echo, Google Home is an always-listening piece of hardware that allows users to issue commands using…\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}