In reply to hokkyokusei:
> I've got a pair of Sonos ones. They have Alexa built in and Google assistant ''coming soon'. They have excellent quality sound and I also use them with my Sonos sound bar on the TV. The only downside is the price.
I think this is the big benefit of Google and Alex over Apple. They're licensing out the VA part to hardware makers. I've got an Alex and a Google Home and much prefer the Google Home and think they're in the best place to improve the functionality more quickly than the others simply due to the huge amount of machine learning they have at their fingertips.
I'm thinking of getting the Sonos to add to the system for actual music. For now I've got a Bose Soundtouch with a Google Chromescast attached but want something more integrated and have given up with Bose as its been rubbish since day one.