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what's going on guys to traverse consumer and today we've got a showdown between the smartest speakers you'll come across the Apple home pot the Amazon echo plus and the Google home max if you're in the market for a smart speaker you're probably going to be looking at these guys and the reason why we're going with the Amazon echo plus and the Google home max is because Apple has put a significant amount of effort into making this a really awesome sounding speaker so we've got to get the best speakers that these companies offers and see how they stack up against the home pod and all these speakers have built-in voice assistant that will answer your questions do different tasks that you ask them to so the Amazon echo has Alexa stopped listening I have the home pod has Siri of course and the Google home max has the Google assistant now I'm gonna ask these a bunch of different questions and kind of see what they can do so we'll start off with the Amazon echo what time is it the time is 12:40 p.m. what time is it it's 12:40 p.m. Google home what time bub what time is it 12:40 ok so that's pretty much how you activate these but now let's ask them some questions what's the weather today in Newark it's 34 degrees with cloudy skies today you can look for lots of clouds with a high of 35 degrees in a low of 31 degrees plot information right there it's currently cloudy and 35 degrees in Newark temperatures will be fairly consistent averaging about 35 degrees one thing I like is that her voice doesn't sound so robotic in Newark today expect a high of 36 and a low of 34 but there you have it those are the kind of questions you'll probably be asking it every morning every now and then right before you step out but for some more hard-hitting questions how many final fantasy games were ever made I found 40 final fantasy video games including Final Fantasy 15 Final Fantasy saw no no no final flex are 12 stop she was about to list all 40 how many Final Fantasy games were created I can't get the answer to that on home pod how many Final Fantasy games were created my apologies I don't understand oh that's surprising I'd expect Google to be able to answer that how many Final Fantasy games were ever made sorry I'm not sure how to help Google you need to get it together Lex is beating you in the search Department what are the names of Saturn's moons I can't get the answer to that on home pod what are the names of Saturn's moons here's something I found on Wikipedia the moons of Saturn are numerous and diverse ranging from tiny moonlets less than one kilometer across to the enormous Titan which is larger than the planet Mercury 10 what are the names of Saturn's moons Savage has moons Titan and solidus Mimas and others okay we got a few names out of them so Google with the search so look Siri wasn't able to answer at all but I just goes to show you Siri needs a little bit more help in the search Department it's not fully there yet and in our last video comparing the echo to the Google home meaning I already had them sing happy birthday they both did it Google had a little bit more soul to it oh she got more soul but we're gonna see if the home pod can do it too sing happy birthday sure absolutely ahem okay here I go ahem hang on let me just clear my gosh singing is harder than it looks okay there's a lot of build up for nothing but all right so see we decided I think she decided to not do that now these are also voiced assistant so you can ask them to set reminders or even to set an alarm things like that and they can all do that the only weird thing is of course home pod doesn't have the calendar functionality yet so you can't ask it to set any events or read your events it was weird Google came out with the same same feature missing and it got it later on of course so that's something we're gonna have to wait and see come to the home pod but we're gonna see how long it takes surprise that it didn't come out at launch all right but now we've got to try out the music portion these all are the best options like I said before for each of these companies so let's see Alexa stop it's actually painful see she pales in comparison to their home guys play now the Google hum sounds great but something that I immediately noticed is that I wanted to move forward like I actually hear it but when it comes to these two it doesn't matter what direction you're in you can be anywhere around them they have 360 audio so you can be anywhere and still hear their music the same way you would no matter where you placed it whether this guy you've got to have it facing you in order to hear the best quality app will actually put in a bunch of technology here and software to make sure that wherever you place this you're gonna get the best sound quality possible out of the home pot so placement isn't is something you have to take into consideration now of course musics a big part of all of these speakers because their speakers so there are tons of streaming apps out there Spotify being one of the biggest of course but Google home actually allows you to string from a ton of different streaming services so that's a really good look on Google's end I think Amazon echo really focuses on Amazon music and Amazon Prime music I believe it's called and even Spotify can work on this but when it comes to the home pod home pod uses Apple music you can be music to it from your phone but you can't call out to ask it to play something from Spotify that functionality just isn't here yet you're gonna have to be pretty deep in the Apple ecosystem and have Apple music to really take advantage of all of the controls it has if you're on Spotify though you're probably gonna want to look at something like these unless you are ok we're sending music from your phone over to the home pod but in terms of sheer compatibility with streaming services Google home that's where it's at one thing to also note is that these all have touch controls so there's a touch panel on the top of the home pod where you can play in pause and you kind of use it like an inline remote it also has the volume controls for the echo you have a mute button as well as a little button here that you're gonna use to activate Alexa and it also has a little dial at the top so you can control the volume if you would like and for the Google home max you've got a touch panel at the top where you can control the volume you can slide it up and down to control your volume so you've got those options now when it comes to actually controlling the smart home these all have smart home integration with a ton of products out there for the Amazon echo there are a jillion products out there that use this and actually have Alexa integration as far as the google home at first it had a really rocky start and didn't have nearly as many compatible products as the echo but as of today I hadn't really find that the gap is being well closed now Apple has the apple homekit the products that work with this are labeled you know home kit compatible so there aren't as many I would say as the echo and the Google home I say give it the same amount of time as the Google home has had on the market and it'll probably catch up but it is a bit more behind as of right now now aesthetically if I had to choose one I think it'd be a pretty safe bet to say I'd go with the home pod honestly this small compact size while still having a really great sound is a winner for me the Google home max it is bigger and has honestly a ton more bass but that is because it is a bigger device overall so you know depending on how much space you have you can use it like this hey you can even lie it down if you want take it this way but it's all up to you I think this looks the best the Amazon echo honestly this isn't an award winning design here it looks like a giant speaker but it does come in a bunch of different color options and now the Google they're second generation which is smaller has my fabric design so you can choose what you want it to look like but I'd say in terms of overall looks though I'd have to go with this aside though I think the black version of this looks really really clean now when it comes to pricing the home pot is 350 dollars which is quite a bit more than the Amazon echo I believe this goes for 170 right now and the Google home max is even more expensive at $400 luckily for it though it does have a smaller alternative with the regular Google home which is I think about a hundred bucks or 120 bucks and that second generation echo is only 80 bucks so you have cheaper options while the home pot is the only option at 350 now when it comes to actually picking which one to go with you of course gonna want to factor in budget that's what a lot of people will put on the top of their list but you're also gonna want to take into consideration what these peakers are meant to do where the home pod Apple seems to have focused on making this a really good sounding speaker with some smart functionality so that's right now you're not gonna get something that's quite as smart as the Google home or the Amazon echo but you will be getting a great sounding speaker but if you're looking for an all-out powerful music player Google home is definitely something you're gonna want to look into while between the two of these I think the Google home is a bit more powerful but I do think the Apple home pod is a bit on the cleaner side of things so you wouldn't want to make that choice if you want cleaner audio versus more loud and powerful audio now one thing you're going to want to take into consideration is the ecosystem if you've got an Android phone or even an iPhone you'll be fine with the Google home whether it's the Mac's or the normal one you'll be able to use it no problem you can actually do that with the echo as well the echo what I really like about its ecosystem is that you've got this the echo dot there are tons of different echo products and a lot of smart home product manufacturers are making sure their products are working with the Amazon echo home pod itself only works with iOS devices so you can't use it with an Android so you got to be pretty deep in the Apple ecosystem you can only use Apple music to really listen to music unless you use your iOS device to stream music to it so that's something to keep in mind as well but if I had to personally choose I would probably go Google home Mac's simply because it has pretty good sound as well as all of the smart features that I want to use immediately but if I could mix and match and make this to a Frankenstein of some sort I would take the Google smart assistant and all of its smartness and take the sound quality and the design of the home pod that would be my ideal put Google assistant in here with all of Apple's tech that would work perfectly and this you know it's cheaper so there's that but that about wraps it up for this video guys hopefully you enjoy let me know in the comments down below which you would use to set up your smart home play your music answer your questions all the time let me know is the comment down below and I'll catch you guys to the next one so that is your average consumer piece