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Apple to Unveil New Full-Size HomePod 'Fairly Soon,' Says Gurman
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It was already DOA when it was released in the first placed hence the nixed it. They just resurrecting for AR Goggles.
Intended behaviour. Force upgrades incoming.
Traditionally, Apple’s admission of failure or discounting is to retire a product and then bring it back cheaper. TC is a genius!
Are you walking all over your house with your iPhone in your pocket?
IMO the main failure of the original HomePod was that it wasn’t introduced with home theater speaker functionality. Many more people would have jumped at the chance to replace “dumb” speakers and a receiver and all the wires that entails. By the time the functionality was added it was too late.
Hopefully new large HomePods will lean more into that functionality. Or are cheaper.
Hopefully new large HomePods will lean more into that functionality. Or are cheaper.
I would prefer a soundbar and subwoofer tbh. I would pay a fair bit for a soundbar with HomePod features. Not so much for a single speaker.
Access to local iTunes/Music libraries would be amazing. One can dream.
Is this a genuine question or are you trolling?
When I get home I drop my phone on the kitchen table and leave it there for the day.
As long as it's faster than my current OG HomePod. That thing seems to struggle with any commands lately.
…can’t wait i have my two ready for selling. Please Tim don’t make this expensive or call Ultra just for the sake…
It would sound pretty dreadful as the larger one will have a radically different sound profile. Software would have to compensate for the physics.
Will the new HomePod support hi res lossless streaming from Apple Music? Probably not, since AirPlay 2 does not support hi res wireless streaming. And it doesn't appear that Apple Music supports hi res streaming either. I've seen a number of posts elsewhere that suggest that Apple Music doesn't even support lossless wireless streaming - these posts indicate that you can stream lossless (up to 48kHz) local files via Airplay 2 but that Apple Music streams in lossy AAC.
I scored a pair of them from Best Buy for $199 each during a rare sale.
The two most prominent Apple analysts are Gurman and Kuo, add in a couple of leakers with better than average prediction accuracy and you have appropriate reference sources. Should they not credit the sources since they are more often than not Kuo and Gurman?
