The HomeView and Echo Show 16 could be the family computers I’ve been asking for

Three years ago, I wrote an obituary for the astute display. The class - astute speakers with touchscreens attached - was stuck with a fewer underpowered gadgets from Google and Amazon that tried to bash excessively overmuch and did excessively small well. Back then, I besides laid retired what they needed to bash to improve. This month, Apple and Amazon launched caller astute displays that cheque astir each container connected that list.

Based connected my little hands-on clip with Apple's archetypal astute display, the $299 HomeView, and Amazon's $499.99 Echo Show 16, a ground-up rebuild of its astute show line, these could yet crook the astute show into what it should person been each along: …

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