Apple Discontinues Beats Pill+ Bluetooth Speaker

[TheSynchronizer]

The Pill also has no Siri integration or anything

For what it’s worth, my pair of Pills have built in microphones and because I have hey siri turned on on my iPhone, I get siri functionality essentially the same as a homepod.

Granted, the microphones are nowhere near as sensitive as the ones in the homepod, but it’s nice to have portable smart speakers

I think Apple needs to figure something out and release a new bluetooth speaker ASAP - one with siri and maybe even wifi capability built in, with the amazing battery life and efficiency of recent apple hardware, it would fly off the shelves like crazy.

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[Starfia]

Oh, yeah, you're right – speakers can generally use a generic button for Siri or calls. (Not voice-activated, though, right?)

And, yeah, they could certainly do a portable HomePod. As an aside, I also discovered the Insignia Mini Sonic – little, good-looking and half-decent-sounding portable speakers which can form a stereo pair (stereo!). I'm not sure what Apple would have to do to make me replace those, but two of them cost me maybe $25 used and I love the heck out of them for anything that requires portability or a little water resistance. (So, they'd probably have to do a lot.)