Great to see people got theirs. What about those of us who ordered on the 6th through Apple Insider because of the $10 discount you advertised through Adorama? They emailed on 8th saying they were backordered, and a subsequent email reply sent by myself yesterday was answered essentially with a “we don’t know when we’re going to be able to get the item”. Just wondering if anyone at AI has any answers or if anyone who ordered through AI is having same issue?
Same here! Contacted Adorama and they said they have no clue when they will ship out the orders or if ever!? Why would AI support such thiefs?
Chill child. You don't like to wait, cancel your order and go pay full price. You have that option.
Still can’t purchase HomePod or HomePod Mini in the Netherlands. Why??
Same answer as with most new products: Apple apparently has only a limited (large, but limited) number available at the moment and has opted to address its biggest markets first. Hopefully you in the Netherlands and other great countries will get some before Christmas, but yeah as I'm in Canada I've gotten used to occasionally not being in the first clutch of countries to get the latest hotness.
New products? The HomePod was released on February 9, 2018. Still not available in The Netherlands. Heck, it;'s only sold in 10 countries now, 2 and a half years afterwards. So what now, we're gonna wait 2 and a half years for the mHP to arrive in...10 countries in total?
I have the full-size HomePod in our living room, there is no lag when watching. Since the mini uses the same tech as the normal one, I would imagine there would be no lag with the mini as well. I'll test it when I get home on my mini.
The biggy sized HomePod is an excellent little "soundbar" alternative. I haven't noticed any sync issues but Apple has a process to fine tune it if you have issues. Hopefully the minis will provide the same same capability.
A belated but sincere thanks for this information. I've seen the question asked in other places but not one answer. So a pair of HPms are at the top of my list for New Year, just days away.
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There's a lot of blog articles there too if you really want to delve into the whys and hows. For example:
https://www.threadgroup.org/news-events/blog/ID/187/Like-Wi-Fi-for-the-IoT-How-being-application-agnostic-sets-Thread-apart-from-the-rest#.XlcJsC2ZMmV
and
https://www.threadgroup.org/news-events/blog/ID/225/What-does-Project-CHIP-mean-for-Thread-in-Commercial
which explains Apple's more recent involvement and a project called CHIPS.