MacRumors has a HomePod article which includes details on how to track your UPS Next Day Air Saver HomePod shipment even if Apple still shows "Preparing to Ship." All you need is the phone number associated with the order.
Worked for me, a nine pound package scheduled for delivery tomorrow (Friday) by end-of-day.
Worked for me, too. UPS has been in possession of my HomePod since Monday, 2/5 where it has been sitting at a hub in TN awaiting shipment via UPS Next Day Air Saver with a scheduled delivery date of Friday, 2/9.
Just go to UPS Track by Reference and use your phone number.
Same for me, label created on 2/4 but doesn't show it's moved yet. Maybe I'm just that close to the shipping center. But it will be delivering to work so someone can sign for it.
Almost no one I know talks to their electronics in a meaningful way...yes, isolated use cases here or there, (tomorrow's weather, price of a stock, sports score), but generally in private and Siri does all those kinds of things well. But very few talk to an inanimate object in a public/group/office environment. So I think the Siri/Alexa thing over-emphasized in terms of importance, especially for how Apple is positioning it as a high quality device
The most effective use for me is short audibles for text or emails while driving.
Homepod, like so many Apple things, is planting the seeds for something larger and integrated is my feeling…
"A meaningful way"? You mean having, deep. passionate conversations about each other's dreams and aspirations? If not, then what could you possibly mean if being able to make a command or query, then have it immediately executed holds no import, useful quality, or purpose for you?
You know what I mean.
Voice control is, as a part of our daily social and functional behaviors, an incredibly small facet of how we interact. As a percentage, and as how it impacts how we do things, it is relatively meaningless, and far from meaningful. Its far easer, more private, and less intrusive to type "aapl" in my browser than speak out, Hey <assistant of choice>, what's the price of Apple stock today?"
From a time allocation perspective, its probably 1/500th of the totality of how we interact on a daily basis. Hell, most people hate to type, but Dragon Naturally Speaking never lit the world on fire.
My hunch is that voice control inside the home (you only mentioned public/group/office settings) is going to be huge. It is not that way yet (as you say) but I think it's headed that way. This may be consistent with your "planting the seeds" comment, but I think it's quite obvious that the HomePod will play a major role in the oft-mentioned "integrated home". It's just going to take a while to get everything in place for that.
Largely,yes, which is why talk/concern about Siri in the HomePod todayis really not worth much consideration.
Sure, there may be some that use a several times a day, but for the marketplace at large, there are many psychological, technical, and practical impediments to near-term, broader use. In a home with multiple people, can individuals be identified to link interactions to them? i.e, "Make a haircut appointment tomorrow at 11 am..." Can any system figure out with extremely high reliability who is asking, and who's calendar to put it on?
Yes they can. Ours reliably recognizes my wife's voice as distinct from mine. Every time.
If I say "Make a haircut appointment for tomorrow at 11am" it will be put on my calendar, which I can access but my wife cannot. It's my private account. When she says "remind me of a lunch date with Rebecca when I get to work tomorrow" she's recognized by her voice and the reminder goes to her, and delivered when she arrives at work. I never see it, nor could I if I wanted to short of accessing her account using her private credentials. It works as its suposed to and my requests have never yet been mixed up with hers. I will say there's been a couple of instances where a device she wanted to control, for example the living room TV, wouldn't respond to her but it would to me. Aat first I was confused as to why but that was by design actually, just the way it was set it up to work. The Logitech account is mine. Without me granting her specific access to it, which of course I did, she couldn't use it. So all in all it pretty well and generally well thought out altho I do wish integration with 3rd party apps was more consistently done.
Since it has been so convenient I use voice input whenever I can and dozens of times every day: texts, reminders, alarms, initiate phone calls, lights, thermostat etc, as it saves me a lot of time IMO. My wife not so often except with home control and cooking. So some folks like it and some would rather tap away at a virtual keyboard. But the service knows one voice from another even if not used all the time.
I got an email from apple with tracking number and request for pre-sign for delivery. I don't think that I will be at home when UPS comes. Should I pre-sign it?
I got an email from apple with tracking number and request for pre-sign for delivery. I don't think that I will be at home when UPS comes. Should I pre-sign it?
Don't you lose any right to getting UPS to pay for any stolen items if you do that?
I got an email from apple with tracking number and request for pre-sign for delivery. I don't think that I will be at home when UPS comes. Should I pre-sign it?
Post your street address so we can assess the crime in your area. And let us know when you'll be away from home.
I suggest you not pre-sign and just try to be home. Or simply wait until Saturday or Monday to get it.
Yes, the Siri aspect comes up short in the reviews.... but Siri comes up short on the iPhone/iPad, too, and they still sell well. As for the limitations of content, well it is for the Apple Ecosystem, stupid. The reviews generally seem to be from folks that think it is a fail simply because it can't stream pandora or spotify. I say, who cares?
Except iPhones aren’t sold as personal assistants/home automation hubs
”ecosystem”, except for everything in iTunes (I don’t have to run upstairs to my iMac to play music with Sonos)
Nor do you have to run upstairs with HomePod. You can use any audio app on your ios device and beam it to the HP, including the iTunes Remote app for your local library if not using iTunes Match.
of my sonos friends, none of them use voice control whatsoever, so this is so much ado about nothing, as usual. nobody cared until apple.
As for the limitations of content, well it is for the Apple Ecosystem, stupid. The reviews generally seem to be from folks that think it is a fail simply because it can't stream pandora or spotify. I say, who cares?
It’s not Pandora or Spotify that are the problem, but Bluetooth! The speakers have BT but don’t pair with random Bluetooth sources, at least according to what I read. That pretty much defeats the point of BT speakers.
As for the limitations of content, well it is for the Apple Ecosystem, stupid. The reviews generally seem to be from folks that think it is a fail simply because it can't stream pandora or spotify. I say, who cares?
It’s not Pandora or Spotify that are the problem, but Bluetooth! The speakers have BT but don’t pair with random Bluetooth sources, at least according to what I read. That pretty much defeats the point of BT speakers.
It doesn't defeat the point of Bluetooth speakers. Go ahead and buy BT speakers if you need them. HomePod isn't a BT speaker.
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Same for me, label created on 2/4 but doesn't show it's moved yet. Maybe I'm just that close to the shipping center. But it will be delivering to work so someone can sign for it.
If I say "Make a haircut appointment for tomorrow at 11am" it will be put on my calendar, which I can access but my wife cannot. It's my private account. When she says "remind me of a lunch date with Rebecca when I get to work tomorrow" she's recognized by her voice and the reminder goes to her, and delivered when she arrives at work. I never see it, nor could I if I wanted to short of accessing her account using her private credentials. It works as its suposed to and my requests have never yet been mixed up with hers. I will say there's been a couple of instances where a device she wanted to control, for example the living room TV, wouldn't respond to her but it would to me. Aat first I was confused as to why but that was by design actually, just the way it was set it up to work. The Logitech account is mine. Without me granting her specific access to it, which of course I did, she couldn't use it. So all in all it pretty well and generally well thought out altho I do wish integration with 3rd party apps was more consistently done.
Since it has been so convenient I use voice input whenever I can and dozens of times every day: texts, reminders, alarms, initiate phone calls, lights, thermostat etc, as it saves me a lot of time IMO. My wife not so often except with home control and cooking. So some folks like it and some would rather tap away at a virtual keyboard. But the service knows one voice from another even if not used all the time.
Don't you lose any right to getting UPS to pay for any stolen items if you do that?
I suggest you not pre-sign and just try to be home. Or simply wait until Saturday or Monday to get it.
of my sonos friends, none of them use voice control whatsoever, so this is so much ado about nothing, as usual. nobody cared until apple.
That’s what inquiring minds want to know...
The speakers have BT but don’t pair with random Bluetooth sources, at least according to what I read.
That pretty much defeats the point of BT speakers.