Reading this comment made me trigger so many bad memories with Siri...
Yes, you made me angry for the rest of the week-end.
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Gurman: Apple Considering Updated HomePod Mini Alongside New High-End HomePod
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Yes, you made me angry for the rest of the week-end.
“Gurman doesn't shed any details on what a possible update could include”
Yes, because he doesn’t know.
Yes, because he doesn’t know.
"Hmm yes, seems like this update is going to be an update"
The price was a flop. The speaker itself sounds amazing, especially in a stereo pair. The way they produce artificial surround sound with Dolby Atoms is insane. They just priced it way too high for what it is. I bought one every time Best Buy had them on sale for $199. That's where it should've been priced right out of the gate.
Add Z-Wave, control of WiFi outlets and switches, and simple if/then logic programming and you might have something. Otherwise you just have a speaker, which no matter how good is supposedly sounds, can not match the sound of even the cheapest bookshelf speaker.
As I've said before...if the new "OG" HomePod sounds like the incredible speakers in my 2021 16" MBP, I think the sound design improvement will blow us away.
Ha ha! Siri makes me and my wife angry every day! But when Siri asks my wife 3-4 times a week “Who‘s speaking?”, I have to take the HomePod out of her hands as she almost throws it out the window…she’s an authorized user with all the settings checked and the only female voice in this house of 3. Hey Siri, figure it the F out!!!
I can’t tell you the number of times I will ask my paired OG HomePods in the kitchen to do something and an iPhone or HomePod mini in a room down the hallway around the corner picks it up…uggg
Better yet add a short throw laser tv projector as an option in the big one…
I’ve given up on Apple coming back into home networking and making all of these devices mesh satellites.
Apple is so behind in the "smart home devices" business. so unless there is something really impressive - why would they catch any more market share?
At least in the US "modern kitchens" integrate with the family/living room, why do I need a device for a kitchen? doesn't make sense ...
And for a new HomePod, unless it works with an ATV - no for me. please correct me, but it is my understanding that HomePods don't connect to ATV ...
Apple has had many flops, especially when Steve was there, but whether or not you consider the OG HomePod or mini, it's not a flop
HomePods already have the option to stream in lossless since they’re streaming directly from Apple Music, and are usually freed from the constraints of AirPlay.
They better get moving. I get sense Amazon is passing them in this space. We just ordered a 5G cellular Wi-Fi router on the t-mobile test drive program and they threw in an Amazon video pod thing (don’t know name).
I don’t expect apple will give one away in such a deal but Amazon must be pushing hard for domination here if they are fully subsidizing by giving these away.
(Yes I did ask T-M if they had an apple equivalent but no dicey.)
I don’t expect apple will give one away in such a deal but Amazon must be pushing hard for domination here if they are fully subsidizing by giving these away.
(Yes I did ask T-M if they had an apple equivalent but no dicey.)
Apple was so behind MEN (Motorola/Ericsson/Nokia in the industry), only having Rokkr at the time to its credit (with a ton of help from Moto) in cellular telecom. And then not long after, iPhone.
I was always interested in HomePod and Siri so I could play my own music on demand (tons of ripped CDs and various downloads) but it's not doable. I want nothing to do with Apple Music, and it just bugs the hell out of me that I can't say "Play Bob Dylan" and have it figure out that I want it to play from my own music collection. Epic fail.
Apple can’t force Spotify to do so and Spotify seemingly doesn’t want to incentivize consumers to buy more Apple products.
Another reason is probably also that HomePod is just a tiny fraction of the smart speaker market and doesn’t have a big user base.
So I don’t see this happening unless Apple finds a way for HomePod to get market leading features and have many millions buy them worldwide.
HomePod will remain useless until Siri doesn’t suck anymore unfortunately.
We use our HomePod with Apple iTunes Match, $25 annual subscription which plays all our uploaded music which we ripped from our 💿 years ago. Works very well for us.
except, they are playing catch-up in this space, plenty "smart" speakers out there ...
A lot of things Apple is introducing is compared to the iPhone, that just doesn't work all the time ...
You can definitely hook homepods up to apple tv using eArc (on the latest Apple TV) and use them as a stereo pair. Not sure if you mean physically hook up but they definitely can hook up with an Apple TV.