Does anyone really find these home assistants to be all that useful? Echo, home, etc. All of them really seem to be designed to get you to buy them and then to sell you more stuff, not to actually be useful. It barely works for even simple queries. The music integration doesn't work well with Spotify on the home, and can't even add reminders. The echo has to ask "am or pm" when I tell it to 'wake me up tomorrow at 8'…
We need have a couple Google homes and family uses them all the time. We first had the Echo but since purchased Google homes.
The big difference is the Echo requires rigid language or basically commands you memorize versus the Google home natural language for most things. It is like the Echo is a command line and the Google Home a GUI.