RIP Nest Mini – The Google Home Speaker isn't a replacement, but hopefully the start of a new era

Google has killed the Nest Mini — the little puck that lived on approximately every flat surface in America — and replaced it with the new Google Home Speaker, which is a different product with a different price point and a different vibe. The piece is honest that this isn't a like-for-like swap, and that the smart speaker lineup now has a gap where a cheap, mindless room-filler used to be. If you still have a Nest Mini, it's not going anywhere; if you're shopping fresh, the calculus just got more complicated.