There is going to be a soundbar homepod in the future that may or may not have Apple tv attached to it. Apple has seen how seemless Sonos has made wifi home theatre. To be honest I’m suprised Apple hasn’t bought Sonos.
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Apple Discontinues Full-Sized HomePod to Focus on HomePod Mini
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"Last a lifetime"?
With an iOS chip inside and no external input connections whatsoever?
I'll have some of what you're having.
Frankly, I'd offload any HomePods if I owned any.
Going to drop in value like a rock.
booooo, bad move. hope they replace it still with a bigger version. the sound quality is so much better on the full home pods. mini ones work great for our kids rooms - they can play whatever they want and we can intercom them to dinner! but our living spaces and tv/movie systems make the full sized home pods sing. apple has always had music in its DNA, I hope they keep a more "flagship" speaker going
Apple released a statement (quoted in the article). It’s official. It also says while supplies last on the website.
Smartest guy in here...
No external inputs mean these are sunk costs just waiting to fully sink.
A big difference here is that AirPods Max support standard bluetooth and you can use them with any device out there. HomePod ONLY did AirPlay and ONLY worked with Apple products.
One of my coworkers has a pair of AirPods Pro and he uses an ANDROID PHONE. The product was good enough that he bought it even though he doesn't have an iPhone! Apple likely would have sold more HomePods had they been compatible with everything like AirPods are.
I was hoping for a refresh with a reasonable price and would have totally jumped on it. oh well.
For how long though? Do they continue to provide software updates for products designated vintage and obsolete?
the product was not successful in the market, so pulling the plus is the right business move
For awhile....then, unlike normal speakers with some external input options, you have pure e-waste.
A very expensive batch of e-waste also
Clearly not enough to make it worth Apple’s while to keep manufacturing them.
I wondered about this when Apple dropped the price. Apple almost never drops prices, so there must have been a good reason. Here it is!
i think they should, if taken care of
and blessed by a exiled chief tibetan that was allocated to Cupertino and is regarded as a High Phobah Monk with a smoke ballast!
but that chip.....will get ya every time!
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"I'll have some of what you're having":
BOSE.....but you mean spirits:
they sell these bottles of these like liquids in stores located in North America, south europe, asia (expect tibet) Africa and even down under that make us happy but headachy the next day. there has to be one near you!
me: chardonnay
Apple needs to do a better job in planning and determining the right pricing and market targeting.
You had to be smoking some fresh Cupertino greens to think the HomePod was ever going to succeed at the original MSRP.
All they had to do was price it right, and so they made a choice. 🤷🏻♂️
If that was the case, they’d keep selling them. Apple is not going to turn away money.
If they do release new ones or a sound bar perhaps, they've got to include some way to connect them with a wire.
That would solve so many issues over the longer term and add so much flexibility for home theater usages.
"Wireless only" for high end audio gear is simply a non-starter for a lot of people (rightly so as it's very limiting)
That would solve so many issues over the longer term and add so much flexibility for home theater usages.
"Wireless only" for high end audio gear is simply a non-starter for a lot of people (rightly so as it's very limiting)
The saving grace here is that the Mini is a hit, which means it will continue to receive software attention. So by extension OG HomePod SHOULD continue to piggyback on the Mini well into the future.
Different chips in the HomePod vs HP Mini - see tweets below
I'd sell of any original HomePods sooner rather than later - but that's me.
I suspect the first HomePod cost as much as it did because it cost that much to design and make. Like the AirPods max, I don’t think there was much room for them to lower the price if they hoped to make a profit. Apple was certainly not going to sell them at a loss like what Amazon was doing.
At least some of the tech appears to be living on in the HomePod mini, so it doesn’t seem to have been a complete loss.