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Amazon Dominates Voice-Controlled Speaker Market

posted by on Wednesday May 17 2017, @09:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the OK-Alexa,-tell-Cortana-to-call-Siri dept.

takyon writes:

Amazon is dominating the voice-controlled speaker market, according to a new forecast from eMarketer out this morning. The maker of the Echo-branded speakers will have 70.6 percent of all voice-enabled speaker users in the U.S. this year – well ahead of Google Home's 23.8 percent and other, smaller players like Lenovo, LG, Harmon Kardon, and Mattel, who combined only account for 5.6 percent of users.

The new report backs up another from VoiceLabs released in January, which also found that Amazon was leading the voice-first device market, thanks to Echo's popularity.

While the market itself is not expected to be a winner-take-all scenario, competitors like Amazon and Google will win entire homes, as most consumers have said they wouldn't consider buying a competing device once they already own one voice-controlled speaker.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/08/amazon-to-control-70-percent-of-the-voice-controlled-speaker-market-this-year/

Gee whiz!

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  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday May 17 2017, @10:38AM (4 children)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Wednesday May 17 2017, @10:38AM (#510993) Journal

    According to the article, between 7 million and 11 million of these things have invaded/found homes in the US.

    Apparently, there are 125 milllion households in the US, although only 118 million "TV homes"
    https://www.statista.com/statistics/183635/number-of-households-in-the-us/ [statista.com]
    http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/news/2016/nielsen-estimates-118-4-million-tv-homes-in-the-us--for-the-2016-17-season.html [nielsen.com]

    So these devices can now be found in about 8% of US homes.

    Who needs privacy when you have such convenience!

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday May 17 2017, @11:40AM (3 children)

    by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday May 17 2017, @11:40AM (#511009) Journal

    Better change habits when visiting other people. Ask for a declaration of listening devices and remote operated "security cameras" indoor. Any failure to comply should leave them out of the loop of any sensitive matters that considering big data is just about anything.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @01:16PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @01:16PM (#511066)

      https://xkcd.com/1807/ [xkcd.com]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @04:48PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @04:48PM (#511215)

      Sound deadening condoms for voice-controlled speakers?

      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @04:51PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @04:51PM (#511220)

        "The Cone of Silence".