Anyone have an experience with the Google Home? Seems like a straight competitor but since I'm more tied into the google ecosystem than amazons it may make more sense.
I have a Google home that I use in my office (WFH). While it is tied into the Google ecosystem it doesn't really matter. It's an inferior device to the Echo in almost every way with the exceptions that it has much better search and much better voice recognition. Other than that, the integrations with other components are very small, the microphones are not as good, the speakers are not as good and in general the interface is not as good.
That being said, depending on your plans, it's a fine device that's significantly cheaper and can handle most basic tasks that Echo can handle. But, if you want to listen to 98.5 The Sports Hub, well, you can't on Google Home and you can on Echo. Google Home can't find the Tune In station while Echo can. It's just one of the small ways things just work with Echo but don't with Home. Oh, and don't open Google Music on your phone or computer to search for something because it will stop playing on Google Home. It sees it as another stream. Echo does not have this problem with Amazon Prime Music.
One thing Home has over Echo, and why I had high hopes, is that it has multi-room music sync. You can play the same song synced on multiple Homes. I only have one so I never tried it and I don't know how that will work unless you subscribe to Family plan for Google Music.
There is also one really annoying thing and that's that the wake word is "Ok, Google" for Home. If you have a Google phone in the same room as your Home, every time you issue a command both devices will listen. Only one will fulfill the request but it's annoying as hell to have your phone beep and reply every single time you use it. You can use "Hey, Google" too but at least for me that's not as intuitive. I'm well trained I guess. Hopefully they allow custom wake words someday.