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Apple HomePod Smart Speaker Is Officially Dead—HomePod Mini Now the Focus After four years of run time, Apple discontinues its original HomePod. Instead, the team will now focus on the HomePod Mini, which was introduced last year. (Photo : Alexander Shatov / Unsplash) The History of Apple HomePod HomePod, "the speakers of the house," is a smart speaker developed by Apple Inc. and released in 2018. It was designed to work with Apple Music Subscription and Siri's voice assist. It was an excellent speaker that delivered high-fidelity audio and adapted according to its location in the house. Ho...

It will focus instead on the $99 HomePod Mini, which launched last fall.  The $350 HomePod never became a consumer hit, likely due to its limited capabilities and high price. Apple is killing off its $350 HomePod smart speaker, the latest high-end device Apple has discontinued this month.  The company told TechCrunch's Matthew Panzarino earlier in March that it's discontinuing the original HomePod in favor of the HomePod Mini, which debuted last fall. The smaller, $99 smart speaker has impressed critics since its launch thanks to its sound quality, lower price point, and seamless iPhone con...

HomePod Mini helps drive record quarterly share for Apple while Amazon and Google combine for more than 50% of the market BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global smart speaker sales reached a record level in 2020 in spite of the challenging conditions precipitated by the Covid 19 pandemic, according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics’ Smart Speakers and

Smart speakers have become a staple of nearly every home. Being able to give a quick voice command to control lights or the thermostat is all too convenient. They also make for handy gadgets to answer trivia questions or to stream music without fussing with your phone.  They have evolved over the years, and instead of coming in basic designs and one size, there's now a wide offering of speakers that interact with Amazon's Alexa, Google Assistant, or Apple's Siri. Honestly, if you're looking to buy one, it can quickly get confusing trying to figure out which is the best for you. 

Show More Apple launched HomeKit in 2014 and for many users it remains a bit of a mystery, an outlier in the smart home space that is wound up with the iPhone, Siri, and an unintuitive corner of the smart home universe. What is HomeKit, and is it appropriate for your home? Let’s dig in and break down what it is and how it works today. What is HomeKit? While HomeKit is exclusive to Apple and its licensees, it is really just a communications protocol, a framework of technologies that lets your iOS device work with any number of smart home products. Apple currently claims that more than 100 ...