Apple HomePod. It's somehow the best and the worst.
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Forgot that Siri has one of the best TTS engines.
Sometimes I think you and other tech reviewers just read reactions to product announcements on Twitter and do reviews that echo them. To say maintaining subs (and that sweet ad revenue that comes from it) isn't a little political would probably be naive.
Fact is I totally think this review loses the plot and is bad. You emphasize its smart limitations. But then, almost as an afterthought, you say it's hands down the best sounding smart speaker on the market.
Maybe Apple thought all this through?
Maybe they know that you can already do all those things with your phone. So how smart do you really need a speaker to be? Isn't it redundant?
What you can't get from your phone or your iPad is great sound out of the speakers. So the actual void to fill is great sound for music.
Hence the Home Pod.
A great product because it sounds great. End of story. You're not paying for its redundant smart features, you're paying for the audio quality.
4 years later, I think we can say maybe the only fault is they might have shipped this too soon. All of its limitations you mention have been fixed. But when they released it you couldn't even use it as a stereo pair. But still worth it for the sound anyway.
But I get it. Actually defending the Apple Tax would probably be career suicide.
Yawn 🥱 Home Pod Prank… New 2nd Gen is even dumber than the dumb.
is this the 2023 model?
Can’t can’t can’t. Damn apple.
anyone here to compare it to the new 2023 HomePod?
Pretty much brawns over brains
This has got to be the worst speaker ever
Fast-Forward to 2020, HomePod Mini, smarter siri
You either die a bad product…
Or you live long enough to get an amazing mini version.