Harman’s Alexa speaker is 100x uglier than its Cortana speaker
This looks awful.
Harman Kardon has announced the Allure, a smart speaker running Alexa that is very, very, ugly. It features a four-microphone array, 360-degree sound, ambient lighting, and you can stream music over Bluetooth.
The problem is it’s ugly. We know Harman Kardon can make a decent looking speaker, as it did with the Invoke, its Cortana-powered smart speaker earlier this year. There’s no reason the Allure should remind me of a food processor.
There’s the bigger question as to why the Samsung-owned company is releasing speakers running Alexa and Cortana instead of Bixby, but the immediate question is how this even made it out of R&D. I want to put fruit in it, not ask it about the…
