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HomePod: The BirchTree Review
Introduction
The HomePod is an interesting product from Apple. It’s a smart speaker that Apple is going out of
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The Smart Speaker Market IS the Speaker Market (or why no one buys iPods anymore)
One of the defenses I’ve seen for the HomePod’s lack of certain voice features that Alexa and Google Assistant alreayd have is that these are distinct product categories: it is perfectly reasonable to expect someone to own a HomePod for music and an Amazon Echo for smart speaker stuff. Or at least, that’
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Searching for that AirPods Feeling
One year ago I got AirPods, and they blew me away. Right from the first time I opened the packaging to the last time I put them back in their wonderful case1, they have wowed me. The Nintendo Switch is really the only competitor as far as favorite tech purchases of 2017 for me.
So
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Putting HomePod’s Music Powers to the Test
The HomePod sounds good, but how does it stack up to the Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa in terms of taking my music requests? That’s what I looked at today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne_tu_H2u64
There are tons more things to look at when it comes to the HomePod, but
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HomePod Goodies and First Impressions
I plugged my HomePod moments after UPS valiantly brazed the winter storm to get it to my front door. Despite my concerns, I was very much looking forward to this device and was waiting with bated breath all morning. Given just about 4 hours with the device, here’s what I think so far.
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Why Multiple Voice Recognition is Important to HomePod's Core Music Functionality
How to Prevent Other HomePod Users From Affecting Your Apple Music Recommendations - Mac Rumors
If you're concerned that other people in your household will skew your Apple Music recommendations by using HomePod to play songs that don't align with your tastes, then there's a setting you'll want
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Struggling to Agree on HomePod's Place in the Market
“Smart” speaker – what makes a speaker smart?
Maybe if Apple had called the HomePod a “super speaker” or something else and more directly avoided the comparison to “smart” devices like the Echo and the Home, they wouldn’t be having so many tech reviewers reviewing a Ferrari as if it were a Corolla.
I love
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“What’s a HomePod?” (Showing My Dad Apple’s New Smart Speaker)
My dad is a “normal” person when it comes to tech. He’s interested in it, and has strong opinions on Mac vs Windows and iOS vs Android (Apple by a mile on both counts), but he’s not reading about this stuff every day. He uses an iPhone 6s Plus, in no small part
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My HomePod Testing Playlist
I’m getting a HomePod in just over a week and I thought I’d share the playlist I’ll be using to test it. These are all songs I love and songs that I think have really good production values that will make the HomePod prove its prowess.
Feel free to recommend your own
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HomePod will Indeed Have Over-the-Air Updates
Via MacRumors:
When a new software update is released for the HomePod, users will receive an alert and will likely be directed to the Home app to install it, similar to how Apple Watch updates are installed through the Watch app. HomePod will be listed as an available HomeKit device in the Home app.
This
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Google Assistant adds Muti-User Support for Netflix
Google Assistant now supports voice match for multiple Netflix profiles
For Netflix, if you have a personal profile on a Netflix account, you can link your personal profile and set up Voice Match to play content where you left off.
This is something Google has a major lead on the HomePod (at least for now)
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Smart People Seem to Agree, HomePod is an Echo and Home Competitor
Daring Fireball: HomePod’s Priorities
The difference between HomePod and Amazon Echo isn’t that they’re in different product categories. They’re in the same category. No one other than a gadget reviewer is going to put both a HomePod and Echo in their kitchen. They’re going to have one. It is, most
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2018 Holiday Season Proposal: HomePod mini
Note: It is a bit odd to propose an expansion to a product that has not been released yet, but