https://www.cnet.com/news/google-home-ships-more-units-than-amazon-echo-for-the-first-time/ > The Google Home smart speaker has long chased the Amazon Echo. It came out more than two years later and significantly trailed in capabilities, awareness and sales. Google's speaker gradually caught up in capabilities, to the point that its now a matter of much office debate as far as which one is better. Finally, in the first three months of 2018, Google caught Amazon in the area that matters most -- sales. > Worldwide shipments of Google's line of smart speakers -- including Google Home Mini and Google Home Max -- pulled ahead of Amazon's Echo line of smart speakers for the first time with 3.2 million versus 2.5 million units shipped in the first quarter of 2018.