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Google adds and shows Apple Music support to Assistant Smart Speakers
Google also revealed that Apple Music is now available on smartphones and screens that use the Google Assistant, including Google's own Nest product range, such as the new Nest Audio. Owners of Assistant Smart speakers or displays will be able to set Apple Music as the default speaker service and use their voice to play songs, tracks, or playlists from it, much as they would do for Spotify, Pandora, or YouTube Premium.
This adds to the popularity of Assistant Smartphones and screens to a broader market and captures Google's mobile line up to Amazon's, which has sponsored Apple Music through Alexa's Echo Smartphones since 2018. As with other services available on Google's smartphones, you can play Apple Music on several speakers at the same time for full home audio.
With Apple Music on board, the only major services left that are not entirely supported on Google's smartphones are Amazon Music and Tidal, all of which are compliant with Echo speakers (and do not support Google's YouTube Music service). Apple's HomePod smartphones are in a distant last spot, with the help of only Apple Music and Pandora at the time of writing.
Google confirms that funding for Apple Music will be released today, 7 December 2020, in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Japan.
