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For years, Amazon ruled the smart speaker market. Now the crown is slipping

And these aren’t the only signs that Amazon’s dominance starting to shake. “We are seeing Amazon-branded devices are going down compared to the other players,” Dina Abdelrazik, a smart home research analyst at Parks Associates, told The Ambient. “But Amazon is without a doubt still dominant in the market.”

From the article "For years, Amazon ruled the smart speaker market. Now the crown is slipping" by Hugh Langley.

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