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Apple Says HomePod is Delayed Until Early 2018
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Much better sound quality? I didn't realize you had a HomePod already at home. That's awesome!
lol @ everyone being mad about Christmas. Save/invest or buy things for other people. No judgement
I don’t really have a problem with this, although I only have an iPhone and Watch. When I want to speak to my Watch my phone doesn’t respond and vice versa. Every once and a while the Siri screen will pop up on the other device but it usually figures it out and goes away.
Like a few have mentioned before me. What is this new trend with Apple and announcing products way before they are ready to ship. It was purely a marketing ploy to get out in front of google and amazon.
Man, if Apple announces a product and then can't even deliver it 6 months after the announcement, that makes me scared for how long I'll have to wait before getting my hands on the upcoming modular Mac Pro...
Absolutely. It was like the Airpods last year, they were rumored to be delayed due to technical issues. Why release a product if it's going to be incomplete or not ready, might as well make sure it's a successful Product and ready when necessary.
I got the hint when they didn’t mention it at all at the iPhone X event. The new AppleTV4K was launched, AppleWatch 3 was announced, 3 iPhones were launched, they talked about retail... yet total silence about the HomePod. Not even a passing mention.
It’s pretty clear that this isn’t just your straightforward speaker with Siri tacked on. Apple already knows how to produce a Hey Siri product (iPhone) and they know how to produce speakers (iPod HiFi, Beats). This is something different and they’re aiming high, otherwise it would have been released by now. I’m excited to learn more.
It’s pretty clear that this isn’t just your straightforward speaker with Siri tacked on. Apple already knows how to produce a Hey Siri product (iPhone) and they know how to produce speakers (iPod HiFi, Beats). This is something different and they’re aiming high, otherwise it would have been released by now. I’m excited to learn more.
It is looking more like a stopgap announcement to slow Echo and Google Home sales. On the other hand, who cares how late it is? They need to get it right out of the gate so I don't care if they need to postpone it until 2019 if it means they'll get it right.
I just hope this delayed release date is more about improving Siri than getting manufacturing in place.
Not too bothered by it. Currently Siri is way too dumb to make this product usable.
Siri the end she is not good enough. They are working on that. Then there are all the iOS issues so now people are shifting to fix that stuff on shipping products
Figured as much when it wasn't talked about at during their iPhone Keynote. Clearly if they had a December date in mind and no October keynote. They would have begun to inform the press during that opportunity of when new hardware could be purchased.
No real loss though, I have yet to ever use Siri.
No real loss though, I have yet to ever use Siri.
That issue has been solved for a while but what will HomePod do in a home with more than one person who wants to use it? Will it feed entirely from one iCloud account so only my playlists, apps and so on are available to whoever is interacting with the HomePod?
Ideally it’d be able to recognise people, either by voice or if they have their iPhone on their person, so if someone creates a reminder or a calendar event through the HomePod then it goes on their own personal reminders or calendar.
Of course it's delayed. Apple hasn't hit a non-date specific launch in the TC era yet.
Honestly, not sure why Apple pre-announced this one in the first place, esp. so far in advance. It's not like it was a ground breaking device that anyone other than an Apple lemming would hold off buying something else. And it just encouraged Amazon and Google to get more aggressive with their own smart speaker marketing. Apple is now that much more behind the proverbial 8-ball here.
Honestly, not sure why Apple pre-announced this one in the first place, esp. so far in advance. It's not like it was a ground breaking device that anyone other than an Apple lemming would hold off buying something else. And it just encouraged Amazon and Google to get more aggressive with their own smart speaker marketing. Apple is now that much more behind the proverbial 8-ball here.
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I still don't get why Canada isn't getting it in the initial launch. Annoying.