Google is exacting revenge against speaker manufacturer Sonos by suing the company and claiming it infringed on seven Google patents.
spokesman José Castañeda explained why Google took this action. He said that the suits are being filed so that the company could"defend our technology and challenge Sonos's clear, continued infringement of our patents."
The Google spokesman added that Sonos had"started an aggressive and misleading campaign against our products, at the expense of our shared customers." One of the suits filed by Google focuses on hotword detection and wireless charging. The former is the technology used to activate digital assistants from a sleeping state and put them in an active state ready to receive requests from users. Hotwords would include"Ok, Google," and"Hey, Siri.
Sonos, of course, sees Google as trying to exact revenge on the company. Eddie Lazarus, chief legal officer at Sonos, called the lawsuits an"intimidation tactic” and said they were designed to"retaliate against Sonos for speaking out against Google's monopolistic practices." He added that the suit allows Google to avoid making royalty payments to Sonos and"grind down a smaller competitor. It will not succeed.
as of the first quarter of this year. That still puts it well behind category creator Amazon whose line of Echo devices not only started the smart speaker business but has also left Amazon with a leading 28.2% slice of the global smart speaker pie. Google's first quarter smart speaker shipments rose 6.6% year-over-year during the first quarter. That was the second largest annual improvement in the industry behind Apple's 29.9%. The latter's HomePod mini was the world's top-selling smart speaker during the opening quarter of this year topping Amazon's latest Echo Dot device and Google's Nest Mini even though the latter two devices are cheaper than Apple's mini smart speaker.
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