daveinpublic

Soli said:

tmay said:

Soli said:

tmay said:

Soli said:

smaffei said:

Soli said:

Apple has already opened up Siri to 3rd-paries that offering a HomePod App Store will not be an issue and I'm sure they'll surpass Amazon almost instantly with better IDE for developers.

But, Siri isn't really that open. The API is very restrictive and only supports certain classes of apps. Furthermore, the support is iOS only. So far, there is no word on HomePod (what a God awful name) supporting Siri expansion. I'm guessing that's about a year away which makes it about 2 years too late.

 Not very, but I expect an App Store and full developer tools by next year. Even if you hate Bezos because he kicked your puppy, the people here should at least be able to admit that Amazon is pushing Apple into this market faster and better, especially since most said it wasn’t worthwhile because Apple would’ve done it before Amazon if it was—but who am I kidding, if Fandroids can’t admit that Apple paved the way for Android and the modern smartphone how can I expect Apple fanatics to admit anything positive about another company on an Apple fan site?

Apple has provided an over-designed, over-engineering, arguably audiophile quality speaker in the HomePod to a market space that is currently occupied by the likes of Bose and Sonos. I'm not seeing this as Apple's response to Amazon's Echo at all, and in fact, Amazon itself responded to the HomePod by announcing that they would be adding a speaker product in that space in the future. 

Further, this reviewer's "good enough" summary statement looks to be especially naive wrt to the Amazon Echo Show. It has all the appearance of a product obsolete before launch, but don't let me stand in the way of anybody's fawning narratives.

 It's a digital personal assistant for your home. That's exactly what this market segment is and so it's following the Echo. This notion that the HomePod is "audiophile quality" is ridiculous no matter how good or bad the speaker is. Anyone that calls themselves an audiophile is just an elitist jackass, but in your usage it's a ridiculous statement because the quality of the Echo speaker compared to HomePod is useless comparison in terms of "audiophileness" because you connect whatever expensive sound system you want to your digital personal assistant. You can even buy the little Echo Dot and connect a $10k speaker system to it. It's like arguing that the iPhone is a piece shit because the speakerphone is crap for music or that you can't compare the iPhone to the iPod in terms of music playback because the iPods never came with built-in speakers.

https://www.apple.com/homepod/

I'll let Apple speak for themselves.

So your answer is to let your eyes glaze over, turn off your brain, and let marketing speak with an extreme bias for Apple toward a product still not on the market do your thinking for you, while ignoring my comments about being able to connect speakers to a home-based digital personal assistant that can easily be more expensive, offer better sound reproduction, and be more numerous than what a single HomePod could ever offer. Brilliant¡