Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, blaw, blaw, blaw support on the HomePod blows. Your point is?
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Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, blaw, blaw, blaw support on the HomePod blows. Your point is?
A $50 discount isn’t really undercutting when you consider that Sonos gives you two speakers, plus true stereo and multi-room audio, for the same price. Even without the minor discount, two Sonos speakers were a much better deal.
So you must pay a fortune per month for those 50+ services you need. I need Apple Music s
so you bought a HomePod all ready and tested it? Or just making up crap?
Eh
Neither are going to battle to the death, having choices and competition is refreshing. Though I will buy both if indeed "battle to the death" is a feature.
(I may miss the old Battlebots show a bit too much...)
Personally debating what to do. No Google of Amazon voice assistant is welcome in my house 24/7 currently. The Alexa/Sonos integration so far is not that useful for my needs, so the cheap Dot sits unused. So the Songs with Alexa mics isn't interesting yet. Potentially one though as I have a single Play:1 currently and a PlayBase. Sonos could become my surround sound TV setup + all the music sources.
HomePod could then go in the bedroom for easy voice controlled Apple Music for now.
Ultimate dream would be Sonos + HomePod all working together over Airplay2, and using Siri only to access any music source Sonos supports. Sonos remains a great company, much like Apple with how they are 100% customer and sustainable focused. Aka real companies, not these Reagan like zombie companies screaming "shareholder value" all the time
I agree, but when you offer reasoning like that to someone entrenched in the apple "Ecosystem" mentality thing, your arguments will get you nowhere. Brand loyalty sometimes defies reasoning. I am sure the HomePod will be a fine speaker, but for those already criticizing Sonos or claiming the company is running scared is just an example of the mentality here.
Well it is an Apple Forum, so I guess I answered my own question.
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Read a little bit, you might learn something...
"In the case of Apple's HomePod, though, you'll only have one choice: Apple Music."
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-homepod-apple-music-spotify-2017-6
Also:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...s-homepod-is-three-years-behind-amazon-s-echo
"Amazon offers thousands of “skills” (voice-activated apps) that let users do a range of things (including buy stuff from Amazon). The Google Home Mini, which debuted earlier this year, is similarly endowed. The HomePod will be mostly limited to playing tunes from Apple Music, controlling Apple-optimized smart home appliances and sending messages through an iPhone".
Not saying one is better than the other, just giving some perspective.
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Don't get me wrong, I love Apple. But I hate being locked into a monthly subscription service.
Apple Music is fine, but so is Spotify, and so are the half-dozen or so other streaming services. The fact they all exist, and compete against each other, is awesome. Are all these "people" you speak of so sure they will never ever switch to a competing service?
As for HomeKit - give me a break. There is nothing the HomePod does that my iPhone and AppleTV don't already do regarding HomeKit. Which in itself is pretty useless. I have a bunch of HomeKit accessories and never use HomeKit to control them. The native app is always way better.
EXACTLY! And if you do want Alexa integration, you can do that by having an external Alexa. I have two play 1's paired as stereo with a cheap <$50 dot and it works GREAT! LOVE IT!
And you can have Apple Music on Sonos. Or Google. Or Spotify. Or whatever you CHOOSE. Along with true stereo and multi-room audio, for far less money. Personally I swore off Apple Music after it trashed my music library.
Sonos really appears to be the way to go.
It doesn’t really matter what HomePod does right now, who releases speakers that can’t even play stereo at launch?
I have become a big believer in platform agnostic systems like Roku, Sonos and I’m sure you can pick out a few others. Those are the only two I have experience with.
I am fine with taking the iPad and iPhone over Android and Windows devices but Apple has given me zero value proposition for taking either Apple TV or HomePod over their platform agnostic competition.
I kind of dread the potential reality of an Apple TV for obvious reasons.
It doesn’t really matter what HomePod does right now, who releases speakers that can’t even play stereo at launch?
I have become a big believer in platform agnostic systems like Roku, Sonos and I’m sure you can pick out a few others. Those are the only two I have experience with.
I am fine with taking the iPad and iPhone over Android and Windows devices but Apple has given me zero value proposition for taking either Apple TV or HomePod over their platform agnostic competition.
I kind of dread the potential reality of an Apple TV for obvious reasons.
In a sense, let's hope Siri brings the same expectations with the HomePod. The sound quality amongst these other speakers like Sonos and the Google Max are very good, but if Siri becomes frustratingly problematic to use on the HomePod, that severely will take away from the user experience. So I'm hoping Siri delivers in that department.
Who am I punching exactly? Apple? For an overpriced, late, feature incomplete product that can’t compare to the competition? Sorry if the truth hurts.
And how about you take all of your sexist ranting and assumptions about gender elsewhere?
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Agreed. Specially a speaker that only plays nice in the Apple ecosystem. Want to use it to play audio from your TV during a TV show? Nope, not gonna happen.
my play5 blows all other wireless speakers away. Too bad Sonos can’t write a better app.
"Siri, play ....... from Spotify."
"I'm sorry, I can not play ....... from Spotify"
says it all.
And the amount supported by the HomePod isn't even that handful.
Really? How many of your Smart home devices are Homekit only? Everything I have can be controlled by Homekit and Alexa (and presumably Google Home too). The only things I have that can’t (ie are HomeKit only) are some Elgato Eve power sockets which coincidentally also are easily the worst pieces of hardware I’ve bought in a long time.
I have a couple of questions:
1. How well does Apple Music work with Sonos?
2. Isn’t the HomePod more similar to the Sonos Play 3 than the Sonos Play 1?
1. How well does Apple Music work with Sonos?
2. Isn’t the HomePod more similar to the Sonos Play 3 than the Sonos Play 1?
Apple Music is clunky on the Sonos app and not full featured.
We know, more or less, when multi-room and stereo audio is coming. It's coming in 11.3. About two months passed from the first iOS 11.2 beta until it's release, so we can surmise it will be about two months until 11.3 comes out.
If you like Sonos is a better product, buy it. If you can't wait two months, take a deep breath, then buy Sonos.
But for those that think the HomePod is a compelling alternative, having to wait a couple of months shouldn't dissuade you from considering a HomePod.