The rise of smart speakers ushered in a new era of smart homes, making a personal digital assistant accessible to the average person. But the connections to different device brands, utility features and entertainment options make the smart speakers and displays stand out. With Google and Amazon leading the charge in this space, it can be tough to tell which is right for you. Each company offers a competent voice-activated assistant capable of handling questions, timers, reminders, playing music, controlling smart home devices and more. But there are key differences between the two platforms that are important to consider before settling on one.
Using your smart display to ask Google Assistant to play videos from YouTube is great when working in the kitchen. The Amazon Echo Show 10 and Google Nest Hub Max smart displays are both great entertainment machines with good audio and large screens you can use to watch TV shows and movies. But what you watch and the way you watch it are quite different. While you can ask Alexa or Google Assistant to play a video on Netflix, the rest of the video streaming services don’t match up the same. The big win for Google here is direct access to YouTube. The massive user-driven service has billions of hours of every subject on Earth and isn’t available on Amazon Echo Products. Technically, you can access YouTube on your Echo Show, but it requires a browser and isn’t a great experience. Chromecast is built into Google’s smart displays, expanding the video platforms you can use. Google’s Chromecast is another win in the video content category, as it’s built into all of its smart speakers and displays. This lets you easily send Chromecast-compatible content on your phone directly to your Google Nest device. Amazon doesn’t have proper access to YouTube, but it does have direct access to Prime Video, which Google doesn’t.
A dedicated lights tab shows you the current status of all the smart lights in your home. Many people intend to use a smart speaker with their smart home. While Google Assistant speakers and Amazon Echo speakers can both connect to and control a slew of devices and brands, Amazon works with more. According to a report from Statista, as of July 2020, Alexa is compatible with over 100,000 devices, compared to Google’s current estimate of 50,000. The more devices you can connect to your Echo, the easier it is to build the smart home you want without facing compatibility issues. Some smart home devices will work best with Google Nest and others with Amazon Echo. You’ll have more options with Amazon devices. Knowing which devices you want in your smart home is important because even compatible devices work better on some platforms than others. You’ll have a better experience using Ring devices with Amazon over Google, for example, but the opposite is true for Nest devices.
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