It is more than just price which i agree is too high. The major issues in my mind is no stereo and no inputs for optional sources. Basically Apple forgot that people own other things in the home beyond iOS products.
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Apple Cuts HomePod Orders After Sales Prove to Be Lackluster
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Apple to sell at that price you need better SW... Siri needs to be better... Airplay 2 is needed. Add an audio input jack and Just reduce the price.
on a positive you have the best sounding speaker. Just SW and price is killing it.
on a positive you have the best sounding speaker. Just SW and price is killing it.
Tim Cook’s leaden grey touch of death.
If he cared about more than just profits and social justice Apple might have some inspiring products. He repaints Steve’s old products and comes out with half-hearted new ones that nobody wants.
If he cared about more than just profits and social justice Apple might have some inspiring products. He repaints Steve’s old products and comes out with half-hearted new ones that nobody wants.
Asked my HomePod this morning, what is on my agenda today - sorry i can't help you with this here.
but the sound is superb!
but the sound is superb!
Yes, I got the $50 Google home to test these products, does the same or more than the Apple, and is about as useless. They are a toy you give someone who has everything, thats about it.
They thought that people keen on sound quality would pay the money, and those who don't care wouldn't. Seems about right. There is no _need_ for another product that just copies what others are doing.
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Fair argument. Airplay 1 works just fine with _one_ HomePod but not so well with two.
Siri needs to get some smarts and become a good personal assistant before the Homepod get any more sales.
--I think it's important to note that it took 10% of the smart speaker market in sales over a 10-week period. It most definitely does not currently have 10% of the entire market of purchased smart speakers already in use.
If having a good voice assistant was number 1 for me I would have got google mini
Sound was what I wanted first
Sound was what I wanted first
This speaker being so limited is a bigger issue than price imo.
Of course it sold well when if first came out. It was from Apple, and so many folks will buy Apple no matter what.
But - they did not deliver. And, I am thinking most of those saying they would buy it at $200 would still be taking it back. It just does not deliver.
(I have iphones, macbooks, ipads - so an Apple guy, but love my Amazon Echo stuff)
But - they did not deliver. And, I am thinking most of those saying they would buy it at $200 would still be taking it back. It just does not deliver.
(I have iphones, macbooks, ipads - so an Apple guy, but love my Amazon Echo stuff)
I have a slight problem with you comparison - there are high-end audio brands that can used as the equivalent of a Ferrari in a car analogy, but Apple isn't one of them in that market, despite the audio tech brought in when they acquired Beats.
On the flip side, Amazon and Google are direct (and natural) competitors, and Apple doesn't do so poorly - 10% of the market is indeed decent and nothing worth going doom & gloom.
The price is indeed off, so is Siri's lackluster performance, and Apple might have been a little too confident for the first iteration of the HP - future versions will indeed be much better.
Just like they predicted the Apple Watch was a flop .... which it wasn’t. https://appleinsider.com/articles/1...-as-wrong-as-it-was-about-apple-watch-in-2015
Excellent point of observation there. I didn’t think of it like that but that is a fact, overall it has a tiny tiny tiny percentage of the market.
Tell that to the Apple Watch or iPhone X or the new Mac line , airpods or services
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I agree, I don't have the need for an assistant but then the exciting sonic features when they first announced it haven't materialised yet. There's clearly a lot of tech and potential in them but it seems like a beta product rushed to market. Hope they can create an Atmos or proper surround capable set up when watching films with an Apple TV and multiple HomePods.
Right, overall the Mac has a minute percentage of the global PC market. And they had to half part supplies for the iPhone X because it has been an utter sales failure!
The only device there that you mentioned which we ‘presume because Apple has NEVER released actual factual sales data’, has been of reasonable success is the Apple Watch.
Overpriced. Most people are content with the sound quality from the Echo/Google Home for something like this. I say most. There's definitely a market for people who appreciate high fidelity audio. But when you can pick up several devices for the same price as one homepod - it's attractive to go elsewhere. Also Siri isn't nearly as functional as Google/Alexa. It just isn't.
I think a lot of it is because today’s Apple designers and product planners in their hermetically-sealed design/spaceship chambers are as far out of touch with what users want as the typical multimillionaire politician is to the average American. Lost their hunger and real-world perspective. A victim of Apple’s success.
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Did they. In Pogue’s blind test, it wasn’t chosen as the best when competing with products that cost half as much.
A bit wrong on the sound quality thing because it can be a matter of taste, like television screens one says it’s great, the other rubbish.
Also Sonos has sold so well because it has become the home brand name for decent home media networking and streaming. May not be the best but it is the one everyone thinks off and they consistently get good reviews. Like Philips Hue really.
Mac sales have never been at the same level as PC sales but they are up since Tim took over. The iPhone X is not an “utter sales failure” you can tell that by looking at the ASP and overall profits of Apple to know that. You paint Tim Cook as a failure yet sales in every category are up since he took over.