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“The HomePod is designed to work with an Apple Music subscription.”

Apple arrogance in full effect. I won’t be able to tell Siri to play music in Spotify? Forget it! I can’t do it in the car either and it’s super annoying. Apple is still not opening up Siri fully while Amazon and Google do.

Also quite surprising the HomePod doesn’t support stereo playback and do multi room at launch. 

Still a long way to go for Siri. If you speak to Siri, the average answer is “here, take a look at your screen” instead of actually providing a spoken result recapping the information.
No assistant currently is working that well, but at least Google’s assistant answers logically instead of dumping results to the phone’s screen. 

Meeting cofounder Steve Jobs and executive Eddy Cue back in 2013. He recalled that first meeting in an interview last year.

And then...

He ended up joining Apple more than 11 years later, as Apple sought to get Apple Music off the ground with the acquisition of the Beats Music streaming service.

So this means he joined Apple in 2024?

Thanks for the review, much appreciated.

With this product out there, it doesn’t make a lotta sense to me to buy the Homepod, especially since Apple is boycotting Spotify through Siri. After years(!) I still can’t tell Siri (which by itself is a pretty terrible voice assistant) to play song X in Spotify. They should be sued for blocking competition on their platform. 

linkman said:

dagaz said:

kevin kee said:

Excellent. Oh wait, I didn't even have any issue with root user bug, why should I install this patch. Silly.

root (higher than Admin privileges)

Please explain the difference.

MacOS keeps users away from logging in as root by introducing the ‘admin’ role. This admin role allows you to administer the system fully but doesn’t grant all permissions which could damage your installation beyond repair, unless it’s overridden by the ‘sudo’ command in Terminal which requires you to authenticate.

Even with the sudo command (as admin) there are operations you cannot do, which root does allow. Not only macOS uses this principle, some other Unix and Linux distros do the same.

Basically you can compare the ‘root’ user with a tree root; root has full control, all other user types are layered on top, including ‘admin’ and ‘guest’ users.

Gaining root rights in macOS by entering an empty password is therefore an incredibly stupid oversight.