Tuo Chi Institute of Industry analyst Tian Zhihong pointed out that after Apple joined the smart speaker market is expected to be more consumer concerns, coupled with the inclusion of millet, Alibaba also launched related products, driving the overall market.
Tian Zhihong pointed out that although there are more brand manufacturers to enter the smart speaker market, but Amazon still stands the key is because its ecosystem is complete, the United States market access Alexa's application services have been more than 25,000 , Coupled with a variety of products and low prices, so that consumers are willing to buy Amazon Echo.
At present, intelligent speakers introduced by international brands are still in English mainly in speech recognition, but in the face of the opportunities in the Chinese market are not allowed to enter Alibaba and millet entered this market in 2017, Alibaba through independent research and development Artificial intelligence and cloud technology cut into this market, while millet has the advantage of the vast hardware ecosystem, coupled with language proximity to enable them to catch up.
Although HomePod has been well received by the market, it still faces the earnest pursuit of leading manufacturers and Chinese manufacturers .Tian Chih Hung believes that HomePod has three unfavorable factors. First, the product positioning gap, HomePod is positioned as a home musician, and the market awareness Smart home interface is not the same; Second, the ecosystem is not open enough to enter the Apple ecosystem is very high threshold; Finally, the function is the same with the phone, consumers can also use the Apple phone to achieve cascading functionality.