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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
Is "quietly" really the appropriate word here? Do stores typically put out announcements when they stop stocking certain products? If not, "quietly" just seems to be a way to create an air of vague menace and treachery without saying it.
(a) Considering their track record of wanting to monopolize and control markets, I wouldn't put it past them.
(b) Many stores do put out announcements if they remove products for ideological reasons.
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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/
Well there are better standalone speakers and there are better "smart" speakers. As it stands it doesn't really justify the premium over Sonos, Echo or Google Home. Heck at least let me use bluetooth.
Is "quietly" really the appropriate word here? Do stores typically put out announcements when they stop stocking certain products? If not, "quietly" just seems to be a way to create an air of vague menace and treachery without saying it.
> air of vague menace and treachery (a) Considering their track record of wanting to monopolize and control markets, I wouldn't put it past them. (b) Many stores do put out announcements if they remove products for ideological reasons.
How can Apple be,
1. An operating system and business software company
2. A cell phone company
3. An exclusive marketplace for apps
4. A movie studio and streaming service
5. A music studio and streaming service
6. A hardware company whose products predominantly work with and favor other Apple branded hardware
7. ...
How can Google, Amazon, and Apple all do this? Pretty soon they're going to be providing us insurance, doing our dentistry work, and selling us caskets and cremation services.
These monopolies are sucking the air out of so many industries. And they honestly do a lackluster job at the random spaces they enter - they just happen to have the money and weight to push out the smaller players and not have to worry about actually competing.
I don't want America to have three Samsungs. It's not healthy. I don't want the arts to be dominated by advertising, grocery, and luxury computing/accessory brand companies.
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.
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.
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> 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.
They’re useless to everyone I know until they add support for functioning as a standard Bluetooth speaker. I don’t understand why Apple is so opposed to this.
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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.
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.
In the same way, Apple Music and other first-party ecosystem things sound great on HomePods. The sound is unrivalled at its price point. It really is amazing how good of a device they made. For third party music sources such as Spotify, the experience is quite different. The HomePod subreddit is full of issues with playing Spotify on the HomePod, even over Airplay[0]. It was detrimental to the point that Spotify filed a formal complaint to the EU last year[1], and support was finally added this year at WWDC[2] for non-Apple audio sources.
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/HomePod/search?q=spotify&restrict_s...
[1] https://9to5mac.com/2019/03/13/spotify-files-complaint-with-...