News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on HomePod Mini. Parent comment

Re:HomePod Mini by whycombagator on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @06:28PM (#24771034)
Sure there’s some level of tracking, but that wasn’t my point. My point is that it’s mic free

Also, Sonos speakers from my research outperform HomePod in terms of sound - but if you have data to suggest otherwise feel free to share

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HomePod Mini by gingerlime on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @02:27AM (#24773717)
Can't comment about the sound quality.

As far as privacy however, I definitely understand people's worry about the mic, but honestly I think it distracts from really looking at the data tracking practices and how much data is collected even without a mic. See [0]

I'm curious about Apple's data tracking, but based on their marketing page alone it definitely feels like they've given it a big consideration and it's not an afterthought. I cannot say the same for Sonos unfortunately. (I assume Google/Alexa etc are worse, but I don't use those, and didn't dig into it).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24680614

[ Parent | on HN ]