2 Third-Party Developer Support
One of the things that we love the most about Amazon’s Alexa is that developers can create something called “Skills“. These allow the Amazon Echo to do additional things such as play games, read out the famous movie quotes, track your food, and much more. Currently, there is a growing list of 15,000 skills which users can install on their Amazon Echo.
When it comes to Apple’s HomePod, there’s no such thing. As of yet, Apple isn’t allowing developers to build apps for HomePod or extend its functionality, but I expect that this will be made possible soon after HomePod is released to customers.