The booming smart speaker market is getting ready to surpass wearable bands and tablets

While global tablet sales have been declining constantly for the past few years and the smartphone market is in the midst of stagnation due to over-saturation and a general lack of innovation leading to extended upgrade cycles, wearable devices and smart speakers are actually on the rise.

The latter segment was essentially carved out a measly few years ago, when Amazon decided to take hardware seriously and put a voice assistant on a somewhat experimental speaker. The Echo quickly spawned a long line of follow-ups and spin-offs, not to mention a bunch of copycats and increasingly ...

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