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Google is prioritizing smart home functionality and AI capabilities over audio quality to appeal to a broader mass market audience

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"Google's new Home Speaker is aiming firmly for the heart of the smart home market, sacrificing a bit in audio quality to make itself more useful to a general audience."

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