Chinese players are inching closer to Amazon and Google in the smart speaker market

While smartphone vendors had a hard time improving their business performance and despite (or rather thanks to) the coronavirus pandemic, the smart speaker market had somewhat of a mixed three months between April and June.

According to the "preliminary results" published by on Tuesday, worldwide sales reached 30 million units in the aforementioned timeframe, rising 6 percent from the over 28 million smart speakers shipped during the January - March quarter around the globe.

Although fairly modest, the 6 percent progress is undoubtedly better than ...