Apple HomePod Review: The Dumbest Smart Speaker?
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Apple HomePod. It’s somehow the best and the worst.
Siri vs Google vs Alexa vs Bixby:
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Hi iam your big fan !!why you not review the sonos product??
KNAL
I saw another MKBHD video and the subtitles he was Kim PhD here..
Hart broken that it’s not available in South Africa 💔😢
If you ever wanted to pay 350 for a Alexa
Thanks for this dude, saved me from buying garbage for my gf birthday. Now what speaker should I get her?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH YOU JUST SET MY HOMEPOD OFF
You are definitely an Android lover at heart. No doubt about it. You never hear the side shade about android products that you review.
What’s the best speaker to buy ? I’m looking for speaker that I can buy an place throughout my home and pair together for a more stereo-sound
Apple really dropped the ball so badly with this. They should of put in a A11 Bionic and incorporated Siri a lot better. Also allow it to connect to the Mac as well as android devices and portable music players like walkmans.
Can confirm. All of your “hey Siris” in this vid triggered my HomePod
What!!!!! No Bluetooth!? F*** off Apple.
Putting Siri on a smart speaker is like sending a baby to space.
I hate to say it but I think the JBL google music link is the same size as this apple homepod but it does a lot more than this poor excuse of an Apple homepod and it’s definitely worth checking them out because they are unbelievably loud and so far I’m enjoying it’s performance
HomePod MINI is better
6:00 my HomePod overheard and was like telling me stuff 😂
Only I love stevejobs I love apple 🍎 but u really good awesome men 💕👍
6:20 lol
If you read ‘Always Day One’, this post is referenced and explains why the Apple ‘top-down’ structure caused this. It’s about the culture of Apple, not its engineers. They have world leading talent yet they shackle them. A good idea has no chance of getting a shot as it never gets to the top where people will listen.
I would love to hear your take on AppleTV with two HomePods as Setup.
I love looking at reviews of tech I know I can’t afford
I’ve got my HomePod on my desk, and Siri has been activated 4 times watching this video.
Wish I would have seen this video earlier.
Managed to just find one of these in May 2022…coming from a Google home…damn. So far disappointed. Better sound yes. But that’s it. Think I just bought an expensive Bluetooth speaker…oh wait, no Bluetooth and doesn’t even work well with my Spotify.
Fack. 🤪
I’m coming from the future, a lot of HomePods are dying because of a weird mysterious bug. My was dead but I could fix it. It is involved in a sort of AirPlay 2 / stereo pairing mother board failure. But I’ve made it and mine is alive again.
An Amazon Echo is more worth it.
I agree with your title! The Apple HomePod is the “dumbest” device Apple has released.
Interesting how 4 years later none of the cons really matter any longer. Wish Apple were still selling the og HomePod.
I’m watching this in 2022 and I have a home pod mini so that voice detection is not a problem anymore lol
I got it !!!!
5 years later 😭
For a person who’s native language is not English these smart speakers aren’t much of value. For us sound quality is more important.
As all these speakers can’t understand or speak non english language as fluently as they do with english.
Man i wish they came back out with them. I need like 4 more
You either die a bad product…
Or you live long enough to get an amazing mini version.
My HomePod from 5:43-6:07: 🚨🚨🚨
Fast-Forward to 2020, HomePod Mini, smarter siri
This has got to be the worst speaker ever
9:41 time
Pretty much brawns over brains
anyone here to compare it to the new 2023 HomePod?
Can’t can’t can’t. Damn apple.
is this the 2023 model?
6:00 if you want to activate all your HomePods in your home
Yawn 🥱 Home Pod Prank… New 2nd Gen is even dumber than the dumb.
Sometimes I think you and other tech reviewers just read reactions to product announcements on Twitter and do reviews that echo them. To say maintaining subs (and that sweet ad revenue that comes from it) isn’t a little political would probably be naive.
Fact is I totally think this review loses the plot and is bad. You emphasize its smart limitations. But then, almost as an afterthought, you say it’s hands down the best sounding smart speaker on the market.
Maybe Apple thought all this through?
Maybe they know that you can already do all those things with your phone. So how smart do you really need a speaker to be? Isn’t it redundant?
What you can’t get from your phone or your iPad is great sound out of the speakers. So the actual void to fill is great sound for music.
Hence the Home Pod.
A great product because it sounds great. End of story. You’re not paying for its redundant smart features, you’re paying for the audio quality.
4 years later, I think we can say maybe the only fault is they might have shipped this too soon. All of its limitations you mention have been fixed. But when they released it you couldn’t even use it as a stereo pair. But still worth it for the sound anyway.
But I get it. Actually defending the Apple Tax would probably be career suicide.
Forgot that Siri has one of the best TTS engines.