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Amazon In Trouble? How Google Aims To Outsmart Alexa With Home

But can Home overtake Echo? If we look at two other competing devices from the companies, the Amazon Fire TV Stick and Google Chromecast, the two were virtually tied with 22% of streaming media player sales in 2015, according to a Parks Associates report out Tuesday.

From the article "Amazon In Trouble? How Google Aims To Outsmart Alexa With Home" by Alissa Williams.

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