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Rita El Khoury / Android Authority
When Google released its first Home smart speaker, I was immediately all in. I had been following the smart home scene for years and couldn’t wait to start implementing some of it; the timing was perfect, too, with my husband and me moving into our own apartment and finally free to install, change, and test everything we wanted.
Although I lived in Lebanon and had to pay to ship and import everything to me, while trying to reconcile between the abundance of US-made…
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