It seems that at Apple's HomePod launch, Apple's speaker with assistant skills, has accelerated the launch plans of both Amazon and Google to launch their smart devices in more markets. A little over a month ago, the news leaked that Amazon is preparing the landing of Alexa in our country.
A few days ago, the news of the launch of Google's smart speakers was released in more countries, including Spain. As we can read in La Vanguardia, Google's smart speakers, They will arrive in Spain in June, yes, not all their models will.
In principle, in Spain we will be able to compare the Google Home for 149 euros, and the Google Home Mini, the cheapest version that will hit the market for 59 euros. Regarding what if it is a direct competition to Apple's HomePod, the Google Home Max, at the moment this newspaper has not been able to confirm if it will finally land in our country at the same time, or will do so later. It is more than likely that everything depends on when the guys from Cupertino plan to expand the number of countries where the HomePod is currently sold.
Amazon launched the first Echo managed by the assistant Alexa in 2014 and it took 4 years for Jeff Bezos' company to be encouraged to expand the number of countries where it can be sold. For its part, the Google Home, saw the light in the conference for developers that Google held in 2016, so the waiting time between its launch and arrival in our country is only two years. Now we just have to wait and see if, once and for all, we start to get used to interact with our device through voice commands.