Amazon Alexa now compatible with over 60,000 smart home devices
Including over 7,400 brands
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Alexa now works with over 60,000 smart devices, making it the most widely available voice assistant on the market.
According toDigital Trends, this represents a significant increase in availability, as “just one year ago,Amazonreported that the voice assistant was compatible with 12,000 devices”.
As Amazon reported that Alexa was compatible with 20,000 products in September 2019, the company has “increased the number of products that support Alexa by 200%” over the last eight months.
Smartphones vs smart speakers
In terms of compatibility with smart devices, competing voice assistants likeGoogleAssistant andApple’s Siri are lagging behind, with Google Assistant supporting “10,000 devices from more than 1,000 popular brands as of October 2018”.
This number could have increased significantly since then if Alexa’s growth is anything to go by – even so, Google has a long way to go if it’s to catch up with Amazon.
That margin could increase further still, since Google scrapped its ‘Works with Nest’ program following its integration of the home security brand and subsequent launch of theGoogle Nest Hub Max.
According toEngadget, Google’s new privacy initiative will “allow data sharing between connected devices and apps, but only for a handful of tightly screened partners”.
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Despite Alexa’s compatibility with so many devices,Google Assistant and Siri are still the most widely used voice assistantsas they come built into smartphones – and smartphones are, of course, far more popular than smart speakers, and probably will be for the foreseeable future.
ViaDigital Trends
Olivia was previously TechRadar’s Senior Editor - Home Entertainment, covering everything from headphones to TVs. Based in London, she’s a popular music graduate who worked in the music industry before finding her calling in journalism. She’s previously been interviewed on BBC Radio 5 Live on the subject of multi-room audio, chaired panel discussions on diversity in music festival lineups, and her bylines include T3, Stereoboard, What to Watch, Top Ten Reviews, Creative Bloq, and Croco Magazine. Olivia now has a career in PR.
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