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HomePod No Longer Available for Purchase From Most U.S. Apple Stores
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Agreed. I got my HomePod pair for $200usd each and I think they have incredible value for the price, even more so with the recent home theater features.
Price didn’t kill it. Apple killed it. I’ve paid more that $600 before on speakers and these were well worth the price. What exactly is Siri’s stupidness? Everyone on planet earth knows Siri is the 3rd ranked assistant and I could care less. I don’t ask Siri silly stupid asinine questions. Everything I ask Siri has been within reasonable expectations and 98% of the time I’ll get the answer I wanted. I don’t have to worry about being spied on like Alexa when looking at the wife’s smart speaker and it is recording up a storm until you tell it to stop.
Agreed. The bass is pretty decent — probably not as good compared to dedicated subwoofer, but the HomePod stereo pair does a pretty good job of finding a good balance.
It's a really good tradeoff if you want to simplify your TV sound setup, which I did. I had the HomePod pair anyway and wound up ditching my TV sound bar and woofer.
Am I the only one that could care less and does not use SIRI, google, Alexi etc?
It’s been like that for at least a year now. I remember shortly before the Mini launched that going to the page on the HomePod and seeing the browser tab list it as HomePod (2018) way back last summer.
Old news.
Thanks for the tip. I just found one on eBay for a bit over $200. Looking for the second one now!
This is a big appeal to me. I don’t like having a giant sound bar, giant subwoofer, and giant box for the rear speakers. Having just two speakers (with woofers) that work with the new Apple TV 4K over ARC would be ideal.
As I wrote before on another thread, I’d love revamped HomePods (w/o camera or display). But for those few who have written that HomePods are “the best speakers” or have “the best sound” should inform themselves better before issuing pronouncements that are not factual. This is because HomePods are decidedly not a product created with serious audiophiles in mind. Serious audiophiles will invest untold thousands upon thousands in audio equipment that would blow the HomePod out of the water. That said, they are good for what they are and for their price point. And the convenience of voice activation is a plus, too.
If they'd have just dropped the price a little, I would have considered buying one. The mini doesn't really appeal to me - I want more sound than my laptop speakers.
I can. Hans Zimmer going ham on the pipe organ in Interstellar or Dogfights in Star Wars (deep "space" sounds) sound incredible. It's easy to shake the house with them.
I have 2 white HomePods unopened still in their boxes, and 2 that I'm using now. Waiting to finish my gameroom.
I got them when Best Buy had for $199. For some reason I thought I bought them in 2020...
But when I checked Best Buy site for my purchase history... I got them June 20th 2019! I hope they still work!
I still have 4 Sonos Ones unboxed also. I think I should be done renovating this August.
I got them when Best Buy had for $199. For some reason I thought I bought them in 2020...
But when I checked Best Buy site for my purchase history... I got them June 20th 2019! I hope they still work!
I still have 4 Sonos Ones unboxed also. I think I should be done renovating this August.
Strange some people still expect a new homepod model in 5 days. Obviously this won’t happen: they would not have discontinued the current model but just waited to announce the successor.
Instead they clearly stated their focus is now on the Mini. I don’t see how they could have made it any clearer.
Instead they clearly stated their focus is now on the Mini. I don’t see how they could have made it any clearer.
If Apple includes an EQ in the next HomePod, I’m in. Until then, Sonos it is. Not everyone can afford to have apartment complex-shaking bass with little to no control over it.
I was fortunate enough to purchase the last space gray HomePod from my local Best Buy about a month ago. I made the purchase with the app for in-store pickup.
When I got the HomePod I realized it says "HomePod Demo" on the box... It works like my other HomePod I picked up on release day, but I thought it was strange.
Does anyone know anymore about this? My thought is that it could've been an in-store demo unit but it arrived completely packaged and even had the plastic protective cover to peel off the top of the speaker.
When I got the HomePod I realized it says "HomePod Demo" on the box... It works like my other HomePod I picked up on release day, but I thought it was strange.
Does anyone know anymore about this? My thought is that it could've been an in-store demo unit but it arrived completely packaged and even had the plastic protective cover to peel off the top of the speaker.
I am not surprised by this. Why have a lingering product on the shelf that is no longer being made? That would give customers the wrong impression not to mention possibly take sales away from the mini.
This. Match Sonos pricing, don’t be snide on allowing competing services and it bangs most other speakers out of the park.
They couldn’t help but apply the Apple tax, though.