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Re:Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech... by fiddlerwoaroof on Monday October 05, 2020 @10:10PM (#24694134)
Yeah, mine basically does what I want it to do
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Re:Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech... by ramses0 on Monday October 05, 2020 @10:18PM (#24694182)
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?".

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Re:Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech... by CharlesW on Monday October 05, 2020 @10:24PM (#24694210)
> 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/

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Re:Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech... by paxys on Monday October 05, 2020 @10:42PM (#24694283)
> For sure, nobody's buying HomePods for Siri

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.

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Re:Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech... by fiddlerwoaroof on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @01:11AM (#24694894)
Honestly, I buy Apple devices because of the cross-device integration. I grant that many of Apple’s devices aren’t the best in the category: but I find that, considered as a “computing environment”, they’re pretty hard to beat.

Also, I trust Apple’s “don’t listen for Hey Siri” feature more than the either Google’s or Amazon’s

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