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Apple discontinues full-size HomePod, to focus on HomePod mini
Apple is reported to have sold all of 25 million AppleTVs, ever. OTOH, billions of television sets have been sold: Let's be conservative and say, one billion, i.e., 1,000 million TVs exist today in the wild.dymmas said:anantksundaram said:
Without an an AppleTV - a product that should be retired just for its ungodly remote - just as external speakers to any old TV (as thousands of speakers can)?dymmas said:
What a useful post you have provided. Been able to do this for ages...anantksundaram said:The HomePod is a remarkably mediocre product.Wake me up when they can be used as TV speakers. Yawn.
Pray tell us how... I'll wait. In the meantime, you can educate yourself with this (as can the ignorant poster to whom I responded above): https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207705Of course we can’t show you how as it cannot be done without an Apple TV. Your original post did not include the adverbial phrase “without an Apple TV”, which would have added the necessary modification to your statement.
Adding this qualification in a future post and calling people ignorant for not reading it in the original one is a little disingenuous.
That would imply HomePods are useless vis-a-vis 97.5% of ALL the TVs out there. So, no qualification required in the use of "TVs".
I'll stick to my characterization of ignorance. I am guessing that it is perhaps amplified by that disturbingly common unable-to-look-past-one's-nose-thanks-to-Appleitis syndrome that afflicts some in this forum.
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Apple discontinues full-size HomePod, to focus on HomePod mini
It has all the conceptual clarity and aesthetic elegance of the "magic" mouse laying upside down to charge, or the most abominable remote of all time (which you'll need to be able to use the HomePod, since you need the AppleTV).avon b7 said:I think there were conceptual flaws that stood out.
A 360ºC design on a product with a cable? And a not long cable at that. Placing the product in a central position position would leave the cable as a tripwire, so inevitably they were placed in non-central positions, perhaps defeating the purpose of a 360ºC design.
My only 'live' experience with one was at an Apple Store (where it was also placed on a table which was set against the wall) and the guy that was selling me a phone couldn't get it to stop playing via Siri. He ended up exasperated.
Obviously the setting wasn't perfect to evaluate audio quality but nothing about the sound stood out in any way.
Price was always a big factor, as was the debate over the 'stereo' aspect and the thought of needing two to get a better experience.
There was also the issue of flexibility in what you could pump into it, and how. This kind of product, engineered from the ground up as a wireless product, should not be erecting 'walls' as to what can be played and even as a wireless product, should have had an AUX input of some kind. When support gets axed for whatever reason, having an AUX input would keep the device going even without 'the smarts'.
The fact that they have killed it off instead of leaving it as a niche or 'hobby' product, says a lot. Sales were probably very poor but I can't help but think that the retail price was the biggest reason for that. Launching at $199 might have seen this decision never taken or even considered.
Siri seems to be an utter mess in terms of what it can do on different devices. That must be amazingly perplexing for your average user. And launching without a fully 'functioning' Siri was an error. Saying that Siri wasn't its key feature doesn't 't make a lot of sense either. Those mics are there for good reason.
Anyway those are my off the cuff comments from a person that ruled the device out for those main reasons when it was available in my area. I haven't checked to make sure what I just wrote was actually 100% correct because the asking price was never going to get in on my purchasing radar.
I think I'm not alone with that line of thinking.
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Apple discontinues full-size HomePod, to focus on HomePod mini
You can't, without an AppleTV.spock1234 said:
@dymmas I have a LG C9 tv, and two homepods. I would love to know how to use the homepods for TV content. Thanks in advance for your help.dymmas said:
What a useful post you have provided. Been able to do this for ages...anantksundaram said:Wake me up when they can be used as TV speakers. Yawn.Thousands of far better alternatives out there.
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Apple discontinues full-size HomePod, to focus on HomePod mini
No condition was changed. Basic reading comprehension - or in its absence, seeking clarification - was assumed.22july2013 said:
Fair point - when you change the conditions of your statement, the response is indeed wrong.anantksundaram said:
Without an an AppleTV - a product that should be retired just for its ungodly remote - just as external speakers to any old TV (as thousands of speakers can)?dymmas said:
What a useful post you have provided. Been able to do this for ages...anantksundaram said:The HomePod is a remarkably mediocre product.Wake me up when they can be used as TV speakers. Yawn.
Pray tell us how...
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Apple discontinues full-size HomePod, to focus on HomePod mini
Without an an AppleTV - a product that should be retired just for its ungodly remote - just as external speakers to any old TV (as thousands of speakers can)?dymmas said:
What a useful post you have provided. Been able to do this for ages...anantksundaram said:The HomePod is a remarkably mediocre product.Wake me up when they can be used as TV speakers. Yawn.
Pray tell us how... I'll wait. In the meantime, you can educate yourself with this (as can the ignorant poster to whom I responded above): https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207705
