In the world of Assistant vs. Alexa, the Nest Audio makes Google`s case nicely.
Update, February 2021: Nest Audio, 4 months later
It`s important not to overthink what the Nest Audio is, or what it`s trying to be. Google isn`t; it was pretty clear about that fact during the product`s introduction. It`s a successor to the popular 2016 Google Home, the company`s original air freshener-shaped cylindrical Google Assistant-powered speaker, which was released during a very different time in the company`s hardware roadmap.
It wasn`t until the following year, in 2017, that the colorful, rounded-corner, fabric-covered aesthetic we know and love today was revealed in the forms of the Google Home Mini and Home Max, petite and portly versions of that original speaker designed to make the Google Assistant accessible to more home sizes, budgets, and audio enthusiasts.
In the last couple of years, there has been no shortage of Google Assistant speakers released to the market, but most of them sh...
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