Well, it took a little longer than we anticipated a few weeks back, but we can now finally declare the Google Home sequel rumor games officially open. Curiously enough, we still don’t know much about this “standard” smart speaker the tech world has essentially been waiting for since 2017.
Of course, smart speakers are not smartphones, so it wasn’t that big of a deal that Google left the 2016-released device unupgraded the next year… or even the year after that. But enough is enough, and while the Google Home was certainly a worthy rival for Amazon’s trend-setting Echo back at launch, the undisputed market leader has reached its third generation already.