History of VUIs for Google Home

In 2014, Amazon introduced Amazon Echo (refer to the following screenshot), the first VUI device designed for  consumers' home. In 2016, Google released Google Home (refer to the following screenshot). In 2017, Amazon and Google continued to compete against each other in the consumer marketplace  with the Amazon Echo and Google Home devices. The competition between Amazon and Google with these home devices shared similarities with the competition between Apple's iPhone and Google's Android. Currently, these home devices lack the third party applications the consumers can use and, as such, huge start-up and entrepreneurial opportunities exist. Remember Angry Birds for iPhone and Android? What could be the next big hit in this untapped marketplace? Later, from Chapter 3, Building a Fortune Cookie Application, through Chapter 8, Migrating the Alexa Cooking Application to Google Home, you will learn how to develop applications for Amazon Echo and Google Home devices.

The following photo shows Amazon Echo:

The following is a photo of Google Home: