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Despite what the survey results may say, it's clearly all about the humiliation of your friends seeing green bubbles when they text you. In fact, looking at the pie chart, it appears at least 85% switched because of green bubble humiliation but the survey captured that as other reasons.

So, if Musk will still be, "overseeing product, software & sysops", what exactly will this new "CEO" be doing?

Finally, AppleInsider tackles the important issues. 

lkrupp said:

bobolicious said:

Does a decent speaker need front firing mid and high drivers... ?
How does this rate for industrial design ?
Might this actually be a case study for a touch bar ?
Is it time for Mr. Cook to retire, or hire the next Steve Jobs as his boss ?

Well, obviously you took the kludged photo as representative of the actual product. Nothing could be further from the truth. If such a product were to be released it wouldn’t look like the classic HomePod at all.

Yes, the pic that that other rumor site (rhymes with MacHumors) used is likely much closer to what something like this might look like. 

mike1 said:

Stabitha_Christie said:

mike1 said:

sflagel said:

kiowawa said:

foregoneconclusion said:

sflagel said:

Did the old one have this:

Yes, the original HomePod had Bluetooth 5.0. 

I had the impression the Mini version did not have Bluetooth, which made it hard to use for me as I travel a lot and wanted to bring it along without hooking to Hoel wifi.  

Although apparently the large HomePod did have Bluetooth 5.0, you could not use it to play music…. So if someone came to your house with a phone that is not from Apple, they could not share their music. The biggest reason not to get one.

Why would that matter? If they wanted me to hear something, they could just tell the HomePod to play it.

Not really concerned with how my home interacts with visitor's devices.

At some point Apple will stop supporting software updates for HomePods just like they do for every product they make. Once that happens they will become large bricks. Having Bluetooth support for streaming from other devices would allow them to continue being useful. 

Not a concern. By the time Apple stops supporting, I will have moved on to something newer, better more capable anyway. I have BT speakers that are 'bricks" because of old batteries. It's a speaker, not a lifetime commitment.

Well, also, like other Apple products, they don't stop working the instant Apple stops software updates, so it's typically quite a while before they become "bricks".