Like HomePod, Sonos One Leaves White Rings on Some Furniture

[Guy Clark]

Please stop making news and posts about a glorified speaker...

Perhaps I'm missing something but the homepod is just one more "smart" speaker on the market. A speaker is a speaker, with a couple more (or less) tricks than other speakers, but anyway a speaker.
It is not a major technology breakthrough, a disruptive product or anything else that deserves more than a couple of sideline remarks.

Let's talk about the new iMac Pro, the future Mac Pro, the iPhone and iPad ranges, the present and future of Mac OS, iOS, Logic Pro, Final Cut, third party apps and hardware products, thunderbolt, the processors, graphics, apple music, watch, apple tv, display screens, MacBooks, whatever...

But please don't give a speaker more attention than it deserves...
And by the way, please do the same with the news about the 5 new revolutionary emojis that will be included in the next update of iOS.

Agreed. The Homepod is way, way down on the list or at least it should be. Yes I keep making reference to it but back in Steve Job's time this product would have received nowhere near as much media attention as Apple had many more interesting and innovative releases.
Other areas desperately need attention such as the Mac mini. The only Apple product I find even remotely appealing these days is the standard 5k iMac.
Many modern Apple products are no more than fashion accessories. Purchase a MacBook or MacBook Pro with the obligatory docking station. Mac users in the past would have found this unacceptable. Back in the day Thunderbolt 2, Firewire 800 and USB ports were included without any need for docking stations.
The HomePod is being shoved down the readers throat by the media as Apple are relying a singular product as the iMac Pro is out of reach for the vast majority.

Rant over. Have a pleasant weekend

 

[Gav Mack]

Worthy of an April fool! If you buy waxed wooden furniture they tell you it can leave marks.

My two different models of Naim Mu So both sit on mango wood furniture which is oiled but thankfully the slab of acrylic they have as feet don’t appear to make marks. They have indented the wood with their weight especially the larger model. Complain to Naim about it? - maybe on the 1st of April lol.

 

[cwazytech]

Shhh...You're gonna ruin the people-that-love-to-hate Apple product's fun.

 

[mmomega]

Jeez the double standards are high as a MF on here.

Kind of glad this doesn't bother me what so ever. If it left rings and I didn't like it, I'd find somewhere new to put it or get rid of it.
Don't understand being dramatic for the sake of being dramatic on top of buying something and then keeping something I don't like.
Return that, get your money back, find something else.

 

[jlseattle]

"Stain"gate... Oh yea, that was in the mid 90's.... I own two Sonos and haven't had any issues on ikea furniture.

 

[SeaFox]

Maybe the article should be changed to read:

"It is not clear why Apple or Sonos did not inform customers about the possibility of white marks on wood..."

Or any other manufacturer for that matter.

How about "It is not clear why Apple or Sonos did not inform customers about something they should already be aware of, being the owners of wood furniture..."

If this is too much for you to handle, you can always change to metal/glass furniture.

 

[MDARFUS]

Coming soon... Apple will offer an official $19.99 HomePod doily to protect your wooden furniture. Then there will be outrage by the masses, so they'll offer it at a discounted price of $9.99, and everyone will shuffle on down to their local Apple store to buy one before the price goes up. All the while Apple making a huge profit because the doilies only cost 15¢ to make. See a pattern? (Cable adapter dongles/ Batteries/ Doilies).

If you don't like how a product works, don't buy it, take it back, or figure out a way to make it work for you. A piece of black construction paper or a thin piece of felt from Hobby Lobby will have your wood furniture protected from that HomePod and thwart those evil geniuses at Apple, for less than a buck!

 

[Leguna24]

Fair point....I should have been more specific, “everyone” meaning Apple supporters. Now I have myself clear, this community is a good example.

Then you are kind of tone-deaf to posters that like to criticize apple exclusively... are you sure about this community being a good example? wow.....

 

[dLifeHD]

Put it on a coaster. Lol.

 

[Leguna24]

Isn't Sonos celebrated by audiophiles? lol.

 

[spiddyman007]

My coffee mug does the same thing if I don't use a coaster. This is stupid. I suspect another person trying to squeeze out some settlement money from Apple.

To be fair. I don’t think the HomePod gets heated to 115 degrees

 

[SeaFox]

To be fair. I don’t think the HomePod gets heated to 115 degrees

[insert joke about "hot tracks" from Apple Music]

 

[Chiisu]

Listen to your mother, always use a coaster!

 

[AdiTexas]

It's not just any ring - it's a blueprint of their spaceship campus.

 

[Wanted797]

I love this article "It is not clear why Apple did not inform customers about the possibility of white marks on wood.."

Here's a thought! Maybe the article should be changed to read:

"It is not clear why Apple or Sonos did not inform customers about the possibility of white marks on wood..."

Or any other manufacturer for that matter.

These customers where likely informed (via care instructions) that marks could appear on wooden furniture... when they bought the furniture.

 

[amaze1499]

How about "It is not clear why Apple or Sonos did not inform customers about something they should already be aware of, being the owners of wood furniture..."

How about: "It is not clear why Apple or Sonos did not inform customers about that they need to have some sort of common sense."

But then again, there would be nothing to rumble about. By the way, my iPhone got scratches! I was just using it normally?!

 

[Coarseman]

If I am not mistaken, the technical term for this behaviour is “Clutching at straws’....

 

[KiwiAdventure]

9 pages of replies unbelievable over marks left by the Pod

 

[TimWillz]

It’s just the usual case of Apple getting targeted over something that all competitors have issues with too. I think this is just inherently what comes with being such a successful company.

 

[Moofo]

That's exactly why I won't ever have any wood furniture. Too much trouble. Glass or stone tables rules. Hell. With proper budget I would get an architect to build me an house without a single piece of wood. No problem, with humidity, water or marks.

The only place Wood belong is as a tree in a nice forest. As a building material, it sucks.

 

[SactoGuy18]

I wonder is the heat generated by the HomePod and Sonos One causing this problem?

 

[b1wils1]

i'm more concerned with this person's placement of these speakers. i mean, why would you put them next to each other?; AND change the sonos position 3 times. i have MORE questions after reading this article/comments.

 

[Marco Klobas]

 

[Cloudsurfer]

I don't get it, don't these rings just come off after a wipe or are they permanent?

 

[kildraik]

Reading through the comments gives me no hope for humanity. It’s not Apple’s responsibility to educate consumers on how materials react with each other. No wonder why people can’t keep their belogings nice!

*facepalm*