SWTech

The Google Home Max is only briefly mentioned which misses the point of the main problem with Apple's approach. The Max is the same price but offers even better sound and the superior Google Assistant. It may be outsold by HomePod but that misses the point of comparing Google's offering. You only need one Max (it's quite loud), and can supplement that with the cheaper/smaller speakers. Example, I'd have to buy a HomePod for every room, too expensive when I can get one Max for the living area, the medium sized speaker for the kitchen, the screen/speaker for the dressing room and a couple of the little guys for less used rooms. I may have only purchased one Max but bought 5 speakers from Google across 4 different models that each met a need.