Live Coverage of Apple's WWDC 2017 Keynote: iOS 11, macOS 10.13, Notebooks, iPad Pros, and More

[maflynn]

Home Pod - wow, kind of a awful name.

 

[xxray]

I'm calling $350

 

[Saturnine]

The problem with all of these speaker things is the lack of spatial separation. Doesn't matter how good it is, you can't beat having different channels coming through different speakers.

 

[fatalogic]

Choose your speaker, roll of twine, air freshener or metal ashtray.

 

[UL2RA]

I don't want to play music out of an Apple speaker ... I just want it to control stuff.

 

[TitanicManDC]

Ok, that audio balancing is pretty cool.

 

[willzyx]

You have no clue what this offers vs. the competition. Shows your bias.

'Amazon Echo' is a high-end speaker? REALLY? lol

Harman/Kardon-Cortana is a high-end speaker.

 

[bbeagle]

Apple are going to make home music better than my Sony and B&O products? Hilarious.

Why so? Apple doesn't just do this in a vacuum. They hire the best of the best outside Apple to have them work for Apple. What you're saying is so anti-fanboy.

I have a Sonos system in my house right now - which is amazing... and I'm very interested in this.

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

More stuff to make you Apple's slave.

 

[stoopkidblues]

$299-399

 

[BeefCake 15]

Can I use it as a sound bar for my TV?

 

[MistrSynistr]

This event...

LOL

 

[mollyc]

New spokesman for the HomePod

Only if they bring him back for emptying the trash can on a Mac.

 

[MrGimper]

I bought 4x Sonos Play 1's for £139 each and each with £30 iTunes cards, so £109.

 

[PhillyGuy72]

"HomePod" no. Plus I can just picture friends FaceTiming me and yelling "HEY SIRI, PURCHASE 10 COPIES OF 'THE GREATEST HITS OF MICHAEL BOLTON.'"

 

[psingh01]

The name doesn't really matter. iPod was a dumb name. If it works, no one will worry about the name.

 

[macbookhair]

HomePod Pro Fusion Plus coming

 

[apolloa]

You have no clue what this offers vs. the competition. Shows your bias.

'Amazon Echo' is a high-end speaker? REALLY? lol

No bias actually, just facts, Sonos and Amazon Echo will beat this, I've not seen one thing to suggest Siri will better Alexa, and Alexa, Echo and Sonos now fully support each other!
I would trust Sonos or B&W over Apple any day for music quality.

 

[HiRez]

Guessing $400-$500.

 

[Ries]

$499, 599$ for 64GB.

 

[MellowFuzz]

Phil's like a starving fat man who's been given a burger...

 

[yaxomoxay]

Ok the visual thing for the speaker is like the red pulsating dot to indicate pain in painkiller's ads

 

[BPresh]

Homepod is a terrible name!

Lol

So was iPod, so was iPad, and on and on and on... now, everyone is totally fine with those names.

 

[Tapiture]

iPad is a great update...

The greatest update is in the software not the hardware, which is cool because it's free!!

 

[The Game 161]

not fussed with the name but looks good