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Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech gear

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Re: Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech gear

#11
post #8

I guess it shows that they are confident their own over-ear noise canceling headphones will mimic some of AirPods' success. HomePod is still trash though, so not sure what their plan for that is.

How do you figure?

It understands my voice and sounds great, what am I missing?

Re: Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech gear

#12
post #8

I guess it shows that they are confident their own over-ear noise canceling headphones will mimic some of AirPods' success. HomePod is still trash though, so not sure what their plan for that is.

What do you mean HomePod is trash? I really love the sound quality from it, and it picks up when I speak to Siri from several rooms away

Re: Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech gear

#13
post #8

I guess it shows that they are confident their own over-ear noise canceling headphones will mimic some of AirPods' success. HomePod is still trash though, so not sure what their plan for that is.

How do you figure? It understands my voice and sounds great, what am I missing?

Yeah, mine basically does what I want it to do

Re: Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech gear

#14
post #8

I guess it shows that they are confident their own over-ear noise canceling headphones will mimic some of AirPods' success. HomePod is still trash though, so not sure what their plan for that is.

> HomePod is still trash though…

Oh my, no. Say what you will about Siri, they sound wonderful. For example, they shame my Sonos Play:1s.

Re: Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech gear

#15

Bose had to have seen this coming. The patent on noise cancelling expired and now its a free for all. Plus, its apples store. Every item would have been listed at apples sole discretion.

>patent on noise cancelling expired

Looks like Bose has multiple patents for noise cancelling technology. Did a major one expire?

Re: Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech gear

#16

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How do you figure? It understands my voice and sounds great, what am I missing?

Yeah, mine basically does what I want it to do

Siri on HomePod is 1000x worse than Google Assistant responses.

"I'm afraid I can't do that on HomePod..."

"...you'll need to do that on your iPhone..."

Familiar phrases if you go any deeper than "what's the weather?".

Re: Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech gear

#17
post #5

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And Apple introduces competing products

Don’t they already have competing products, via their prior acquisition of Beats?

The rumor is Apple is going to release an over the ear headphones version of airpods under their own brand to sell alongside the beats stuff.

Re: Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech gear

#18
post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, mine basically does what I want it to do

Siri on HomePod is 1000x worse than Google Assistant responses. "I'm afraid I can't do that on HomePod..." "...you'll need to do that on your iPhone..." Familiar phrases if you go any deeper than "what's the weather?".

> Siri on HomePod is 1000x worse than Google Assistant responses.

For sure, nobody's buying HomePods for Siri. That said, with as assist of Homebridge[1] for device support it's abilities are not substantively different than Alexa's for my family's use cases.

[1] https://homebridge.io/

Re: Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech gear

#19
post #8

I guess it shows that they are confident their own over-ear noise canceling headphones will mimic some of AirPods' success. HomePod is still trash though, so not sure what their plan for that is.

> HomePod is still trash though… Oh my, no. Say what you will about Siri, they sound wonderful. For example, they shame my Sonos Play:1s.

Does it work without Apple Music subscription yet?

Re: Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech gear

#20
post #8

I guess it shows that they are confident their own over-ear noise canceling headphones will mimic some of AirPods' success. HomePod is still trash though, so not sure what their plan for that is.

> HomePod is still trash though… Oh my, no. Say what you will about Siri, they sound wonderful. For example, they shame my Sonos Play:1s.

Doesn’t matter how good they sound if it’s purposefully difficult for me to play my Spotify playlists.
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