Thursday, November 10, 2016

New Google Home is not an "Amazon Alexa".

Greetings Programs,

I was one of the many Google enthusiast that purchased the new Google Home hardware product. Many reviewers are comparing "Home" to "Alexa" and that is just not a fair comparison at all.

Amazon has had at lest two years to improve the Alexa product and it does work very well. However even now it can not do a simple function such as to be conversational as can the Home product from Google only days old.

And to be fair all around, perhaps Alexa will someday have that ability. For now though, I'm enjoying those functions that Home can do and do very well.

Though, Home can not directly access apps like Audible or Pocket Cast. I can still cast them to Home, since it is a Chromecast device. As an audio Chromecast, it has some very good speakers.

Oh and one last thing, it only works on a gmail google account! It will not work with the GSuite(aka Google Apps) accounts.

so until next time, caio