{"id":26382,"date":"2019-08-23T17:33:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T21:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=26382"},"modified":"2019-08-29T14:48:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T18:48:55","slug":"the-problems-with-homepod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/23\/the-problems-with-homepod\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problems With HomePod"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kirk McElhearn<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Apple released the HomePod in February, 2018, and the device has never seemed to catch on. There have been strong rumors recently about a HomePod 2 coming next year. But there are lots of problems with the HomePod, which Apple needs to address.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

In any case, the market decides for products like this. The HomePod just seems like it wasn’t thought out for real-world usage. It has powerful technology, which is wasted, and its price is way above what people want to pay.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is probably the most comprehensive take I’ve seen.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2019-08-29): Kirk McElhearn<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I’m correcting a statement that Daniel Eran Dilger on AppleInsider posted in a rebuttal<\/a> to my recent article about the HomePod<\/a>. While I’m happy to disagree on some points, he makes the statement below about the HomePod not being a mono speaker, which is simply incorrect.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Listen to that song on a single HomePod and you’ll quickly understand that it’s not stereo. The two channels are in a single stream, and you don’t hear the voice on one side and the guitar and drums on the other.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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But I wonder if some of this advanced speaker technology is being prototyped for a wider rollout in the company’s more mainstream products. Perhaps this is a test bed for getting impossibly good sound out of the speakers in a MacBook or an iMac, for example.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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