Amazon Is Losing Its Smart Speaker Dominance, According to New Report

The news comes as Google reportedly readies a smart display device

Amazon is no longer the smart speaker king.

A report from research firm Canalys this week found that Google Home shipments outpaced those of Amazon’s Echo products for the second straight quarter as the search giant grows its smart home business overseas.

Chinese tech behemoths Alibaba and Xiaomi also clocked strong growth, whittling Amazon’s market share down to just a quarter of the nearly 17 million devices shipped during the period. Google sold 32 percent of that number, and Alibaba and Xiaomi 18 percent and 12 percent respectively.

That’s a stark contrast to the same quarter last year when Amazon shipped 82 percent of all smart speakers worldwide compared to Google’s 17 percent and less than one percent from other competitors.

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