That's $450 Canadian after tax! UghShould have been 199, 299 is still too expensive.
There will likely be price reduction. I won't bite until I see it for 229 or less.
That's $450 Canadian after tax! UghShould have been 199, 299 is still too expensive.
There will likely be price reduction. I won't bite until I see it for 229 or less.
Yeah thanks man, that article was posted after my question and I also didn’t wade through 22 pages of comments. My bad. Thanks though!!No as several have already pointed out. HomePods must be same type and gen to pair. There is even a separate article on MR addressing this issue.
Interesting. So only whilst it has power/ moved whilst AC tethered? I'd imagine it'd still want re calibration after unplugged and relocated. I don't know.Lets the speaker determine if it has been moved in order to re-calibrate its sound.
Less speaker. More home automation. Still expensive.Watched the video and read the release - very little different including the price?
How? The first generation has more speaker.Aaaand just like that, the value of all the HomePods on eBay just tanked.
It does - Thread with MatterDoes new version of HomePod utilize Matter?
Apple's got their customer base pegged.Still overpriced.
I'll most likely buy it though....
I hope you realise that there is a weird, secret, but understood arbitrary limit of HomePods in one house of 6. Any more gives real issues with multi room options not working, going wrong and struggling.
I have 7 - I have issues.....
but i hope that 16.3 resolves them - are we even supposed to be buying more than 6 - Apple seemed to not think so!
Some serious damage here.
You should bug Spotify about that. The APIs have been there for awhile now. Other providers are already doing it. For all their complaining, Spotify is the slowest to adopt stuff that they request.Yes, but can it FINALLY play Spotify without a phone?!!
That’s true, the smart functionality will be obsolete long before the speaker hardware. Speakers can last forever. There needs to be a way to make use of them at the end of their “smart” life, rather than tossing them and wasting resources. Hopefully someone will figure out a good hack to keep using existing hardware indefinitely. If a line-in can’t be added to the HomePod directly, maybe somehow using an old idevice as a dedicated intermediary. But then that setup will end when the idevice’s life ends.. We need some sort of line-in.the killer upgrade would be able to use it as a speaker sans any of this smart crap. Let to have speaker wire inputs and mounts for a nice set of bookshelf speakers
It’s up to YT and Spotify to hook into the APIs. Spotify won’t do it because of their intent to get the EU to crack down on Apple. YT won’t do it because they want to sell Google speakers to you. You pay for a service. You should provide feedback to the service provide.I was aware that’s the case but I understand Siri still doesn’t work with YTM or Spotify on a HomePod. And it may be the case that those third parties haven’t done the work to enable it, but I don’t care about blame, only whether it works.
If someone knows different I’d love to be corrected!
It had a habit of dying though. I kept one of my broken ones until there's a repair program. It's a resistance which kept getting fried. Not a hard thing to fix, I would have thought.IT LIVES!!!! The OG HomePod is the best sounding speaker, especially stereo paired. I am so happy to see this product back!
Welcome to MacRumors comments—the home of anger and everyone assuming they represent all rational consumers.If you don't like the product, don't buy it. Nobody is forcing you. Seems a lot of people think they have to buy this and are genuinely angry it exists.