Understanding HomePodApple's new HomePod is yang to the AirPods yin: The best and easiest way to enjoy Apple Music and AirPlay, and control HomeKit from your living room.
HomePod was never designed to be an Amazon Echo or Google Home competitor. Like MacBook Air was never designed to be a netbook competitor. They absolutely have some characteristics in common: HomePod is a speaker you primarily control with your voice and MacBook Air was small and light. But HomePod is no more a $50 home assistant than MacBook Air was a $200 laptop.
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Amazon — who's Fire Phone wasn't a hit — needed to get a lot of Alexa into a lot of lives to help increase the stickiness of Prime. The priced-to-move Echo was a brilliant way to do that. Google, which needs to be everywhere and do everything to feed its unquenchable data thirst, was equally brilliant t...
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Understanding HomePod
