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Taking a cue from the success of the Amazon Echo, Google could be making a smart speaker with a display. Google Home debuted in the smart speaker with Google Assistant in November 2016, but Amazon leads the segment with its wide range of Echo devices. As per the data tally, Amazon owns more than 70% of the smart speaker markets while Google settles at 25%.

Google knows that it is lagging behind Amazon in the segment, which is why the company does not seem interested in helping Echo products with its services like YouTube. We recently reported about how Google pulled the YouTube support from Amazon Echo Show speakers. The company claimed that Amazon does not allow Echo Show users to subscribe to YouTube channels and use the autoplay option. These reasons accounted for Google pulling YouTube app from the Echo Show.