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robbyx said:

I returned mine. I think the people raving about sound quality have never heard good speakers. HomePod is ok, but can’t compare to my Sonos Play5, much less my built-in Sonance speakers. ...

Sound quality is highly subjective. If all you have are Sonance and Sonos speakers I'm not convinced you've necessarily heard good speakers either. It sounds like you're just saying the HomePod doesn't sound like what you're used to. That's certainly a fair assessment. HomePod is going to sound great to people used to cheap stuff, not sound as good to people used to really expensive stuff, and for those in the middle it will be a coin toss. 

I definitely like mine, and almost certainly will buy another, maybe two. Maybe three. It depends on how well AirPlay2 works. I've been waffling between buying one really good audio system (I'm eyeing spatial audio M4's), or a house full of wireless speakers. Lately I've been enjoying the sheer simplicity and convenience of the HomePod more than I've enjoyed my existing audio system. I listen to music much more now that I did before buying the HomePod.

Sign me up! My 5s is getting rather long in the tooth, and I need more storage. 

I would buy two of them or maybe three if you could use voice commands to tell the home pods to play any songs in your main computer's iTunes library. Alas that only works if you pay a monthly subscription to Apple Music. No thanks Apple.

iTunes match is only $24/year, and that allows you to listen to your entire library. For me it's well worth it.

fallenjt said:

I'm glad that Apple doesn't use Face ID on the regular iPad. It's disaster for kids sharing it in schools. iPad pro is more a personal device and I agree it should have Face ID. I'm glad that they make the 9.7" iPad compatible with the Pencil. I wish they make Pencil cheaper like $49.

Part of the announcement included a $49 "crayon" from logitech. It's not clear how it's different from the Apple version, though it stands to reason it will be somewhat less capable.

macxpress said:

dewme said:

Great bang for the buck and quite possibly the last coffin nail for the vast majority of Android tablets.

We'll see how it effects Crapbook sales as thats the real competition in Education, not Android tablets...Question is, everyone is so entrenched into Google Classroom and Crapbooks, will this make them switch?

What is a "crapbook" in your eyes? I can't tell if you're upset with chromebooks or macbooks.