It’s genius from a costing perspective and reconciliation. Minimal products on hand no depreciation of product sitting around. Apple runs a very lean production cycle, Tim is an advocate for lean supply chain management. Apple has operated with this mentality since it’s ressurgence and it’s worked for them at a profitability standpoint.
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Pre-Ordered HomePod Mini Delivery Times Slip into Early December
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Great advertising: 'Hey Siri, tell Mum I can't be bothered to pick up the phone!'
I ordered one mid-morning on Friday and it‘s still scheduled for 17-19th delivery. Didn’t expedite it - just standard free shipping.
Can’t wait to hear how it sounds compared to it’s big brother. If good, the plan is to swap out the spare bathroom homepod that’s hardly used.
Agreed. I haven’t used my HomePod for Siri either. It’s a great speakers and I bought them for that and that’s why Apple should consider selling them everywhere. It’s just a perplexing strategy to sell HomePod on country it’s Siri working. Why would you want to lose a sale like that?
I found a single tweet claiming the embargo ends today (Nov9) but who knows. I wish reviews were out before preorders started.
I'm not sure about with Home kit, but I've found that after the last couple of updates my HomePods are far more responsive than they used to be. I haven't had one 'hmm' since I updated them, and Airplay is so much better than before. It instantly goes from my iPhone to the HomePods now, where it was sketchy previously.
I do think Apple are improving the response of these, and hopefully they'll improve even more going forward.
I can't wait, it was worth waking up at 11:00 pm to be at the front of the preorder line for the HomePod mini and partner's iPhone 12 Max Pro. The ultra wide band chips in this HomePod mini and iPhone 12s are going to be very useful for more precise location tracking when it comes to home automation geo-fencing plus the benefit of spreading music to a quieter dead zone between the two HomePods.
Siri amuses me sometimes... I'm afraid that next time after having a few drinks and I instruct Siri with a slur to turn on the Bug Zapper that she will responds with, "Sure! Playing some music by Frank Zappa." 😝
I would have loved to see Homepods go wireless and be rechargeable with MagSafe pucks.
You are correct! Mine is going in the laundry since the audio quality of the other HomePods is not necessary there and being next to garage it will be good to have music in that area. I can issue Siri commands within microphone range and this will be a big bonus to my home automation.
I would say our Homepod/Siri experience is usually very good (not excellent), depending on how strong the wifi connection is where the Homepod is situated. Stronger the wifi, the more responsive Siri is. I believe she responds to smarthome commands about 90% of the time, which is great in school but less great in a home appliance.
Can we stop saying "The latter" its so ****ing stupid and annoying
But they're not taking cash, they don't do that until despatching items. With a new product, lots of purchases come from impulse buyers caught up in the moment - if you can't satisfy that demand very quickly then the moment passes, you lose your advantage and people either don't place an order or cancel their orders once their pulse rate has gone back to normal. You can't give people time to change their minds, certainly not as part of an actual strategy.
Didn't get on the HomePod bandwagon, as it was too expensive, I think it was £350 at the time. I've got 2 x Sonos One (with Alexa) on the same price as the HomePod, but if they keep adding cool features like intercom I might regret not getting the HomePod.
Ordered mine via the German online store since you can't buy them on the Dutch Store but its a long wait until next year
The sole reason I ordered a Homepod Mini is because someone gave me an Echo dot. I do not trust this thing at all - it's always unusually warm, like it's actively plotting something against me.
However I appreciate some of the basic tasks I can do (timers, calendar, conversions, even simple background music). I can't wait to give Homepod Mini a chance, despite Siri being a little stupid (I expect this) I can't imagine it being utterly useless but I may be wrong lol.
They don’t charge until it ships. You didn’t really think that through, did you?
Just in case it is of interest to anyone, currently my order (UK) says:
HomePod mini - White
Arrives 24 Nov
Ordered as soon as the site came online. 2x black, had a Nov 16th date right then. Now it's changed to 17-19. Not sure I understand that honestly.
