Alexas Secret Recording Gives Google An Opening in the Battle for the Smart Home
Usually my co-host for doing the Watching Amazon video podcast is my buddy John \u201cColderIce\u201d Lawson, but with him out of the country, I was lucky to have my friend Jeff Brathwaite \u2013 web guru and Google Home/Assistant expert \u2013 join me. And it was perfect timing, as last week it was reported that Google outsold Amazon smart speaker device category for the first time ever in the first quarter of 2018\u2026something I did not think would happen anytime soon let alone last quarter.\n\nWe talk about how Google is catching up to Amazon in the race for our homes, how a new way to measure the race might help Amazon stay in front for a while longer, and how Alexa\u2019s recording (and emailing) of a private recording could be a game changer \u2013 for Amazon and the entire smart speaker category.