Hands on with Google Home: Your Google universe in a home-appliance wrapper

It's impossible to discuss Google Home in a vacuum. It's a direct, blatant, so-obvious-it-hurts competitor to the Amazon Echo--and if you spend just a few minutes with it, you may come away feeling it's got the Echo's number. Like the Echo, Google Home can start playing music with simple voice prompts. But it sounds better than the Echo, with much deeper bass. I only spent about 10 minutes with Google Home at Google's hardware launch event on Tuesday, and I certainly didn't have an Echo handy for A/B testing, but it took only five seconds of a Hooverphonic track to tell that Google Home delivers better low-end punch.