https://www.cnet.com/news/amazons-smart-speaker-share-drops-below-50-percent-in-q1-2018/ >The smart speaker competition is heating up. >Amazon shipped a whopping 4 million smart speakers during the first quarter of 2018, but rising competition from the likes of Google and Apple has cut its global smart speaker share nearly in half when compared with the same period last year, according to Strategy Analytics.