What's the difference between google home and amazon Alexa ? Which should we get ?

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Am thinking of getting one as an additional part of Christmas gifts. I m a tech Luddite though, I've only just joined Spotify :-)

We have both and google is easier to set up and use, I think. The Echo needs the app really to be very useful, and google just gets going straight out of the box.

Bumping for you & watching with interest 🙂

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What's Spotify ? Oh gosh I'm even more Luddite than anyone!!! I was wondering what people use these things for? Watching with interest

Spotify is (I think!) an app that plays music. There are 2 versions: free (complete with adverts) and £9.99/mth.
Spotify doesn't have every song in its library but is pretty good.

You can save songs to a playlist and on the free version, they play in a random order.

Spotify is very popular these days. It's for listening to music on your phone/tv/iPad and so on. It has a much bigger library of music than Amazon Music or Apple Music.

Spotify lets you download playlists/albums to your phone so you can listen even if you have no reception or wifi.

We have the £15/month family subscription which allows 6 people to listen to different songs simultaneously (and create their own playlists). You're supposed to reside at the same address but they don't check - so you can split the cost with friends if you wish. This is a bit like how many people share their Netflix accounts with grandparents and so on.