8 reasons you should buy a Google Home Max instead of an Apple HomePod by Avery Hartmans on Feb 7, 2018, 12:20 PM Advertisement
 If you're in the market for a high-end, great-sounding smart speaker, you have a tough choice to make: Apple's HomePod, or Google's Home Max? Both speakers offer incredible sound, built-in smart assistants, and the power of two tech behemoths behind them. They even cost a similar price at $350 and $400, respectively. But Google Home Max has several crucial advantages over HomePod, advantages that make it a smarter buy than Apple's new offering: SEE ALSO: Apple's new $350 HomePod speaker sounds great — but there are 7 crucial things it can't do 1. Google Home Max has the powerful Google Assistant built in.  Google Home Max has Google Assistant built in, Google's powerful smart assistant. It can do everything from look up recipes to answer trivia questions to tell you jokes — it's the same Assistant Google has built into its Pixel phones and other Google Home devices. HomePod has Siri, Apple's digital assistant. But Siri on HomePod is not the same as Siri on the iPhone. It's limited in its abilities, so it can't do things like look things up on the internet or place calls for you. And Siri, in general, is nowhere near as flexible or as comprehensive as Google Assistant, when it comes to connecting to your various smart-home devices and answering questions.
2. Google Home Max supports multiple users.  Google Home Max can recognize voices and support multiple users. This is helpful for personalization reasons — it knows who is asking for what — but it's also helpful for privacy reasons. By contrast, HomePod can't recognize voices, so anyone in your house can say, "Hey Siri, read my most recent text" and it will read aloud texts from the device it's paired with.
3. Google Home Max can do stereo pairing right out of the box.  If you buy two Google Home Max devices, they can wirelessly pair to create a stereo experience. HomePod will eventually be able to do that too, but not for several months.
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