Since this has a USB C cord, could one (or two) of these serve as a direct computer speaker for my MacBook Pro?
What better way to get a customer to buy a whole new unit when you can make the simplest component prone to fail.Why not, what if the cable breaks!
Google Mini has managed with a separate cable without being cost prohibitive. Let's not pretend it's about cost to the consumer here.Terrible? I don't know. It would have increased cost, though - a socket and another connector for the cable.
I'm fine with the way it is.
What better way to get a customer to buy a whole new unit when you can make the simplest component prone to fail.
Google Mini has managed with a separate cable without being cost prohibitive. Let's not pretend it's about cost to the consumer here.
What better way to get a customer to buy a whole new unit when you can make the simplest component prone to fail.
Google Mini has managed with a separate cable without being cost prohibitive. Let's not pretend it's about cost to the consumer here.
Why are you people pretending the cable is going to break? It’s supposed to be placed in a static location like any other Appliance.
What better way to get a customer to buy a whole new unit when you can make the simplest component prone to fail.
Since this has a USB C cord, could one (or two) of these serve as a direct computer speaker for my MacBook Pro?
An attached cable is much more reliable.
But what if an alien comes down and cuts the cable? Thanks a lot Tim!!!!
Possibly. It would need power over the USB cable. Audio would be via AirPLay.
USB-C can provide both power and audio, hence my question. Audio via Bluetooth or Airplay would almost certainly not work for computer audio due to latency.
USB-C can provide both power and audio, hence my question. Audio via Bluetooth or Airplay would almost certainly not work for computer audio due to latency.
Ah yes....I hear you....so true....I am also in trouble....I have SEVEN...they just can’t damn resist...think cables are mice tales.As the owner of FIVE cats, the cable is in trouble.
It's not an "excuse" why it should be detachable. It's a reason. And, are you telling me you never had an Apple cable break? Because I've had a dozen break over the years.
Insurance is a waste of money on any item you can afford to replace. On average, they make more money from insurance sales than they spend on repairs and replacements. The only time you should purchase insurance is if the consequences of not having insurance will cause serious financial hardship, like health insurance or car insurance. Insurance on TVs, cell phones, speakers, etc is all a win for Apple and a loss for the average consumer.What a money grab. Selling insurance on a $99 product (overpriced).
A person buying a new iPhone is highly likely to have had a phone before and can use that charger for that new phone. When buying a HomePod the user not only needs an additional dedicated charger, but needs one that is 20w presumably to power it, where is with iPhones, you can use older lower watts and just want charge as fast. So HomePods certainly need the power block included, where is with phones more people than not, do not need one and it will get wasted. And with the phone, Apple is charging your for that charger one way or another, so I personally would like to pay less for an iphone than I would otherwise rather than having to pay for charger I already have.Let me get this straight, Apple includes a charger with this but not with the expensive iphones. Hmm, I thought Apple was trying to save the environment by not shipping wall chargers since we all have so many of them?
We do not. Notably, if we will get a new HomePod with the U1 Proximity chip. Unfortunately I think we won't any time soon. I think they probably arent selling enough at the price point, and are going to focus on the mini's instead, and not discontinue the large ones, but kind of let them sit other than software updates. And then if the mini's became a big success they may end up focusing on the large ones again after they get customers hooked. But while being a native apple ecosphere product has it's benefits and great sound quality, it comes doing to the intelligence, and Siri is still lacking in its inability to do the basics, and so often you ask it to do something and you never know if it will do it right away, or if it will say its thinking and eventually say it cant do it at this time, and thus you could have just done it the manual way much faster. So while Apple I'm sure it constantly improving siri, for people to give it a real second chance, there will have to be an annoucement of some major improvement to it, and that has yet to come. In the meantime Google's is far more robust with providing advanced info, and Amazon is far better at doing the basics better. Improvements to AI and neural engines will presumably help, but where Amazon and Google care less about privacy they seem to be able to provide more helpful products in that respect than Apple who has to be restrained by putting privacy first.Do we know if and when the HomePod will be updated with the same chips?
Reliable at what, pulling the unit off the shelf when the cable is tugged? Making you spend more money to replace the whole unit when the cable is damaged by kids/dogs/cats? The benefits far outweigh the costs to supplying it with a detachable cable.An attached cable is much more reliable.
Let's pretend it's not an issue. What about wanting a longer or shorter cord for tidiness?Why are you people pretending the cable is going to break? It’s supposed to be placed in a static location like any other Appliance.
USB extension cable and/or cable ties?Let's pretend it's not an issue. What about wanting a longer or shorter cord for tidiness?