Amazon Echo will not launch in France in April as expected. Le Figaro says the connected speaker, powered by voice assistant Alexa, will be marketed in France from May 23, 2018. That’s why French users will soon have much more options when purchasing their connected speakers. Apple’s HomePod will also land in France in spring 2018.
Amazon Echo will soon compete with Google Home and HomePod
And, of course, we will have to deal with competition from Google Home, which has so far been in a state of virtual monopoly in France and has the advantage of integrating Google Assistant, which many are already accustomed to using on their smartphones. Android. In anticipation of the arrival of the Amazon Echo and HomePod, Google entered into a partnership with Fnac Darty to promote the Google Home speakers. This is also a strategy that Amazon has risked adopting with its Echo series. Deals with specific distributors should be announced once their affiliate speakers’ release date becomes official.
It is a connected loudspeaker made in France, which will then be released before the end of 2018. Orange will launch Djingo to compete with the Google Home Max and HomePod in the high-end segment. The ISP promises a more powerful assistant than Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant. The connected speaker market is not very developed in France yet, but in the United States it is a hit. According to GfK quoted by Le Figaro, residents would have spent $2 billion using a personal assistant in 2017. There is no doubt that the market will improve as players such as Amazon, Apple and Orange come to France.
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