Like Amazon and Google, Apple has a voice-powered AI assistant. Unlike Amazon and Google, Apple hasn’t put it in your home to listen to your every command. The HomePod will change all that, but don’t start eyeing it to replace your Amazon Echo or Google Home just yet.
Apple’s HomePod is a smart speaker in the strictest sense of the word. It is a speaker that’s listening for your voice commands. However, with a starting price of $350—compared to Amazon’s $100 Echo or Google’s $130 Google Home—it’s clearly aiming for the premium market. Apple engineered this speaker to fill a room with high-quality audio. In theory, you could replace an entire room’s audio system with this speaker.
This means the HomePod is closer in spirit to Sonos than the Amazon Echo. For example, the Sonos One with Alexa ($200)…
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