Alexa or Google in 2026: Choosing a Voice Ecosystem After the Echo Price Hike

For a decade the smart-speaker answer was automatic: buy whatever Echo Dot is cheapest. In August, Amazon changed that overnight — the Echo Dot went from $50 to $80, a 60 percent jump the company blamed on memory and storage costs, and suddenly the default advice everywhere is stale. Apple raised the HomePod mini from … Read more