{"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