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The HomePod does not do that. It's a speaker that you can use Siri with. Siri being an already inferior feature. It does not provide the smart assistant (much less the polish) that Alexa or Home do...and it fails to hit these marks at over 10 times more of an expense to its market.

That's not how it's being marketed. It's a serious sound quality device made to be used primarily with Apple Music with some limited Siri functionality.

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HomePod is a powerful speaker that sounds amazing and adapts to wherever it’s playing. It’s the ultimate music authority, bringing together Apple Music and Siri to learn your taste in music.

It does that very well.

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Posted by GFunk

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Posted on 4/19/18 at 4:35 pm to TigerGman

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TigerGman

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That's not how it's being marketed. It's a serious sound quality device made to be used primarily with Apple Music with some limited Siri functionality.

Which coupled with the lackluster sales should prove to you or anyone capable of rational thought that its failed in that marketing process.

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It does that very well.

Apple Music is better than folks think or give it credit for, but using Siri and not utilizing Bluetooth (when its actually included in the innards of the damn speaker itself) to help it reach its full potential and maximum usefulness is essentially maiming it for no reason.

Again, the proof is in the sales pudding. They overestimated the market of Apple aficionados and/or those caught behind the walls of their ecosystem. They should have honestly planned or allowed for a design that allowed the device to branch out past said walls to ensure enough sales to be successful.

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