Google officially withdraws its Home Max smart speaker
Google launched its Home Max smart speaker in 2017 for $399. Today, almost three years later, the company has officially discontinued the device.
The Charcoal and Chalk color variants of the Google Home Max are out of stock at the company’s store in the United States. And Google in a statement to Engadget confirmed that it is no longer making new units of its three-year-old smart speaker.
While Google has stopped making Home Max smart speakers, it hasn’t ended support for existing users. The company, in a statement to the publication, confirmed that it will continue to provide security updates and software patches for all of its existing Google Home Max smart speakers. The company also said it remains “committed to delivering great sound and whole-home audio functionality” to all of its Google Assistant-enabled devices.
Notably, on the one hand, Google has withdrawn its Home Max smart speaker, and on the other hand, the company has released major updates to the Nest Hub Max smart speaker. The company, according to a report from The Verge, has started rolling out Zoom support on the Nest Hub Max smart display. This feature is previewed for users in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada.
Zoom, in August this year, announced that its platform would be available on Google Nest Hub Max, Facebook portals and the Amazon Echo Show series later this year. Now one of these devices has started to receive the update.
