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 The new sound of home. HomePod is a powerful speaker that sounds amazing and adapts to wherever it’s playing. It’s the ultimate music authority, bringing together Apple Music and Siri to learn your taste in music. It’s also an intelligent home assistant, capable of handling everyday tasks — and controlling your smart home. HomePod takes the listening experience to a whole new level. And that’s just the beginning.   Release Date: Friday, February 9, 2018 Price: $349 Reviews: https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-homepod-listening-test-one-may-not-be-enough/ https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/26/apple-homepod-2018-release/ https://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple-homepod-review,review-5095.html
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Jan 28, 2018 18:46
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Cremnob thinks this will be an audiophile speaker. Cremnob is wrong, but I think it's safe to predict it'll crush the smart speaker market.
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Jan 28, 2018 21:19
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Yes a $350 device with loving Siri is gonna crush the smart speaker marker. Let me order $1000 worth of HomePods so I can have one in each room instead of $300 or whatever for three Alexas (I’m assuming those are like $100/each but idk, I’m fairly sure they’re not $350/each). I mean, just give this a try (requires Apple Music):  : Hey Siri play some music. : Okay, playing your radio station.: Hey Siri what time is it?: The time is 8am, good morning! Because I am the most stupid voice assistant ever and can not understand context, I’m going to keep the phone in this state now where the time is displayed on your screen but the music is just paused, forever, because my programmers are stupid because it never occurred to them that maybe the user wants the music to resume playing at this point.Come on, justify why it’s correct behavior for Siri to keep my music paused indefinitely like this.
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Jan 29, 2018 11:20
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That’s why you use Siri on your watch, where none of that poo poo happens. But yeah Siri on the phone is... loving weird.
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Jan 29, 2018 15:06
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Boris Galerkin posted:Yes a $350 device with loving Siri is gonna crush the smart speaker marker. Let me order $1000 worth of HomePods so I can have one in each room instead of $300 or whatever for three Alexas (I’m assuming those are like $100/each but idk, I’m fairly sure they’re not $350/each). You were mad enough to keep writing this post but not mad enough to Google how much an Alexa costs?
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Jan 29, 2018 15:10
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I just looked it up and they are $99.99 for an Echo and $149.99 for an Echo Plus.
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Jan 29, 2018 15:30
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The Echo is a dogshit speaker. Amazon has no ecosystem to speak of. Assuming the Siri implementation is HomePod specific, it's hard to see what the Echoes have over the HomePod except for price. And we all know how that goes with Apple products.
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Jan 29, 2018 22:01
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Amazon has Echos, Fire Tablets, Fire TVs, Prime Video, Prime Audio, and many smart home devices support Echo. They also publish apps on every major mobile and desktop OS. They absolutely have an ecosystem.
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Jan 29, 2018 22:24
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Really hope Logitech adds HomeKit to the harmony hub.
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Jan 29, 2018 22:27
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Endless Mike posted:Amazon has Echos, Fire Tablets, Fire TVs, Prime Video, Prime Audio, and many smart home devices support Echo. They also publish apps on every major mobile and desktop OS. They absolutely have an ecosystem. But they dont have apple music checkmate apple /s
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Jan 29, 2018 22:32
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:The Echo is a dogshit speaker. Amazon has no ecosystem to speak of. Assuming the Siri implementation is HomePod specific, it's hard to see what the Echoes have over the HomePod except for price. And we all know how that goes with Apple products. The Echo is a criminally good speaker for the price. And a good speaker period regardless of price. Also they have their own music service thats really good too. Every CD or record I have ever purchased from Amazon is automatically in my library. Apple Music still fucks up and plays live versions of poo poo all the time and I hate it.
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Jan 30, 2018 16:06
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Do we have to have 'fanboys' in the title? I know it's inevitable we'll have a lot of bitch slap fights and the usual accusations abound, but it seems a little too on the nose to me. It's like it was written by somebody with an axe to grind with fanboys. But, I bet nobody gives two shits. Maybe rename to It's Just A loving Speaker With a Retarded Decision Tree Bring Home Another Trash Can from Da Fruit Stand Echo My Pecko Transfer My Calls To The Giant Marshmallow Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Jan 30, 2018 |
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Jan 30, 2018 16:29
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Binary Badger posted:Transfer My Calls To The Giant Marshmallow Well that sorts out what I’m calling this thing.
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Jan 30, 2018 16:51
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Alternatively, Transfer My Calls to the Giant Tootsie Roll Transfer My Calls to the Chiclet Apple's Answer To HotKinkyJo Can I Jailbreak This? I Thought Soundsticks Were Nutty Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Jan 30, 2018 |
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Jan 30, 2018 16:55
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Endless Mike posted:Amazon has Echos, Fire Tablets, Fire TVs, Prime Video, Prime Audio, and many smart home devices support Echo. They also publish apps on every major mobile and desktop OS. They absolutely have an ecosystem.
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Jan 30, 2018 17:17
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:All of those things are trash and most of those things no one uses. Prime video and prime audio are both excellent and many people use them. Lots and lots and lots. Alexa is so far ahead of Siri it’s an embarrassment to Apple. And I’m an Apple fanboy.
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Jan 30, 2018 18:12
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Cool, so this is just gonna be a big slap fight?
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Jan 30, 2018 18:15
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Suqit posted:Prime video and prime audio are both excellent and many people use them. Lots and lots and lots. Alexa is so far ahead of Siri it’s an embarrassment to Apple. And I’m an Apple fanboy. Prime audio used to be amazing till they spun it off and now want you to pay 7.99 a month for everything.
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Jan 30, 2018 18:23
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I think the HomePod will suit my needs and I'm excited to get it
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Jan 30, 2018 18:26
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Matt Zerella posted:Cool, so this is just gonna be a big slap fight? Going by the current title, probably.
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Jan 30, 2018 18:56
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e: I'm dumb and have dumb opinions. Sorry.
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Jan 30, 2018 19:03
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Boris Galerkin posted:I mean this entire thread is pointless. It’s so dumb. Why make a thread for something 3 people will buy. You really are and it's really abrasive to read.
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Jan 30, 2018 19:08
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It's a legitimate complaint though.
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Jan 31, 2018 00:08
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Consummate Professional posted:I think the HomePod will suit my needs and I'm excited to get it Same, but no way in hell I'm buying this as a first gen Apple product. I'm sure by the time the HomePod 3GS or whatever shows up it's going to be good.
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Feb 1, 2018 05:26
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Husband gets half off for these so we might pick one up. It's supposed to have really good bass and will work with our phones and our apple tv. I'll report back if we get it and try it. e: we are getting it Over There fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Feb 2, 2018 |
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Feb 2, 2018 19:56
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Apparently it's like 7 inches lol
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Feb 4, 2018 06:29
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Over There posted:Apparently it's like 7 inches lol Well that’s significantly above average so it should be able to satisfy.
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Feb 4, 2018 06:33
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Size doesn't matter, it's how it can handle sound
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Feb 4, 2018 06:44
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One thing I'm wondering about is what the HomePod's Bluetooth 5.0 capability is actually supposed to be for. Apple put out a list of the things it can play audio from (AirPlay and your various Apple media library things basically), and Bluetooth isn't on it.
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Feb 6, 2018 01:03
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I believe you can't use Bluetooth.
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Feb 6, 2018 01:31
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Bluetooth would allow you to use someone else's hardware
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Feb 6, 2018 02:00
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Ewen Cluney posted:One thing I'm wondering about is what the HomePod's Bluetooth 5.0 capability is actually supposed to be for. Apple put out a list of the things it can play audio from (AirPlay and your various Apple media library things basically), and Bluetooth isn't on it. It...cant play bluetooth? e: good lord thats horribly stupid. RIP if your friends want to have a listen but they have android.
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Feb 6, 2018 03:38
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buglord posted:RIP if your friends have android.
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Feb 6, 2018 04:02
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If your text bubble aint blue you arn't a friend
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Feb 6, 2018 04:56
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They must want to utilize some sort of feature with airplay.
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Feb 6, 2018 05:09
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buglord posted:It...cant play bluetooth? But yeah, the list of audio sources on the HomePod page goes: quote:Apple Music
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Feb 6, 2018 06:06
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e: I'm dumb and have dumb opinions. Sorry.
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Feb 6, 2018 10:12
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Boris Galerkin posted:let people pair their AirPods with. Uh...why would I ever do that?
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Feb 6, 2018 13:11
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Boris Galerkin posted:Don’t worry, next year they’ll release a $299 version of AppleTV with HomePod Connection that you can link up to your HomePod 2. And yeah, why would you want to connect your headphones to your speaker? I can't think of any situation where you're at home but for some reason don't have access to your phone. If it's to listen to your AppleTV, just pair with the AppleTV?
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Feb 6, 2018 14:34
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Apple just got their $3,000 speaker in today. I'm sure that can use bluetooth. https://www.apple.com/shop/product/...cf13e117bf1155f
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