The reviews for the HomePod are terrible! What is going on over at Apple? You're releasing a late product with A quarter of the promised features.. anyone here work on that product?
Siri came out way back and they took this long to come up with this
Did you expect it to be good?
I expected sound quality to be good, but for AI I was never sure.
It is not shipped yet. Anyone has hands on experience rather than some reviews?
I think the reviews are very fair. No Spotify support? Locked in only to Apple Music walled gardens? They need to open it up pronto. And not be able to detect personal voices is a glaring privacy hole. Need to disable that option by default until it’s supported. Fix those two and it’s probably the best speaker to buy if you care at all about music. If all you want is a digital assistant, get an Echo dot for fiddy bucks. I think the features will come. I ordered mine and will get it this Friday.
Making/taking phone calls, pairing with android phones, Bluetooth speaker seem to be other points of contention.
Anybody with an iPhone should know what to expect from Siri and would probably assume Siri on HomePod to be more or less a bit more smarter with respect to specific HomePod and music listening use cases. So I honestly don’t get the surprise that Siri isn’t as capable as they’re expecting. What are you really buying? You’re buying superior sound hardware. That’s what you’re buying. Apple made this thing primarily for music, and IoT/Digital assistant use cases will follow....hopefully....with better and extensible HomeKit and SiriKit features.
Yeah but you cant link it to your TV or play Spotify on it. Its garbage
Certainly. Not supporting Spotify as a primary music service is wrong. I think airplay 2 will fix the TV issue, unless you mean it can’t be used as a generic Bluetooth speaker (which is also ridiculous). Just obvious glaring holes. My guess is the executives didn’t have everything ready and instead wanted to ship it doing one thing really good, and that’s essentially showcase the sound quality with just Apple Music at release.
I’ve only heard amazing reviews about the sound quality and how they’re using computation audio to make the listening experience phenomenal. I’d love to read the bad reviews to get a more even perspective. Can you post a few?
Just hit youtube and search 'homepod review'
Why the fuck isn’t the Nest compatible with Apple HomeKit?
The reviews are 100% positive on sound quality. Siri is lacking but i think Apple has to work on making siri competitive enough in the coming years. But that will be software upgrades.
It’s not “siri on a speaker” it’s “a speaker that has siri” - it’s first and foremost for listening to music.
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You forgot the exorbitant price
That I expect from Apple. I dont mind paying a premium for brilliance. This is less than mediocre.
Brilliance? It’s already been done before by every other big company. And better...