Smart speaker battle starts to get nasty

Amazon and Google are miles ahead in the battle for the living room, and the fight was always going to get sour at some point. Withdrawing YouTube from Echo Show was the first shot.
Because the competition is so intense and the rewards so great, something like this was always going to happen. The speaker, or more accurately, the virtual assistant, who control access to the customer in the living room also controls the flow of cash. Some people might question where the money is going to come from