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smaffei said:

Are you kidding me?!?

Siri is dead last when it comes to usefulness (and accuracy) in voice assistants.

Thanks for a FUD piece of journalism.

@smaffei: ;Have you even tried Shortcuts with Siri?
Personally, I use Siri at least ten times as often now as I did before the deep Shortcuts integration. In that way I’ve expanded Siri’s vocabulary with almost 40 new functions that I actually use – many times per week.

Alexa I don’t even use anymore. It was more of an experiment already from the start. Wanted to see what it could possibly give me of real value. Turned out not much, because its phrases simply didn’t correlate with my real-world needs. With Siri + Shortcuts I hit my personal use-cases automatically.

maxit said:

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I can’t understand why HomePod isn’t distributed worldwide... I would be glad to buy one in Italy.

Well, it might just be that the topic of this article holds the answer to this question — Apple is still loosing money on them, or not gaining enough. Why push sales on a product if you don’t really want to sell it? I mean, Apple is not even trying.

minicoffee said:

Hopefully there won't be an excess heat issue with potentially less ventilation through the keyboard, plus the larger battery.

That’s a very good comment since the air flow through the keyboard has previously been mentioned by Apple as a contributing factor to heat dissipation.