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love them or hate them you have to give apple credit for one thing over the past

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couple of decades they haven't really put out very many products that utterly

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failed in the market i mean they're still selling that absurd thousand

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dollar monitor stand because enough people are buying it but one of apple's

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most glaring missteps was this thing the homepod apple's attempt to break into

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the smart speaker market and the funny thing is that apple seems like the

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perfect company to release a successful smart speaker it's much more of a

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lifestyle brand than competitors like google and microsoft and it has a strong

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foothold in the cloud services market so why did nobody want a home pod one big

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reason was that apple was late to the market the smart speaker trend really

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started taking off shortly after amazon released the original echo back in 2014

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and of course google followed with the google home now called nest in 2016. but

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apple's homepod wasn't released till 2018 and by that time both amazon and

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google had released mini versions of their original speakers giving consumers

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even more non-apple options before apple could even get their foot in the door

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but it's not like this thing was the first time apple was late to something

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the ipod for instance wasn't the first mp3 player and the iphone wasn't the

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first smartphone but both products sold so well they became a cultural

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phenomenon however the ipod and iphone offered consumers paradigm shifting ways

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of interacting with their devices whereas the homepod just kind of didn't

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although the homepod's defining feature was supposed to be its superior sound

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quality compared to the echo and the google home that isn't exactly a game

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changer when you consider most folks who want to purchase smart speakers just

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want sound that's good enough to fill a space not audiophile level quality which

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leads us to another key reason that the homepod failed but we'll tell you what

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compact package that fits in the palm of your hand though it's small you can

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watt charger today using the link down below the homepod sold for a whopping

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349 us dollars and while apple has obviously been successful at selling

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other arguably overpriced products the homepod price point just doesn't really

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make a whole lot of sense it was way too expensive for casual users looking for a

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smart assistant with decent sound quality but it was also just too much

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money for people who are serious about sound for that price they'd be better

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off buying a cheap smart speaker from amazon or google to take care of the

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smart aspect and buy hifi speakers for music separately and as an added bonus

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some of those other options you can just plug into hifi speakers of course apple

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being apple they could have found other ways to add value but they just didn't

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although siri was a massive deal when it first came out on iphone the fact that

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apple was late to the smart home game meant that siri wasn't all that useful

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on the homepod if you wanted to control another gadget with your house with the

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homepod it had to be through apple homekit and although homekit isn't a bad

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ecosystem there simply weren't as many devices that supported it as there were

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devices that already worked with amazon alexa and google assistant but the final

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nail in the coffin was the limitations they placed on music if you wanted to

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listen to music you could only stream it through apple music meaning if you were

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subscribed to another service like spotify or title you were out of luck

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although apple finally opened up the homepod software to support other streaming services in 2020 it was far

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too late to make anyone care so the original homepod was discontinued in

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2021 but apple is trying again with the homepod mini which is much cheaper at 99

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and has sold much better than the original model but if that doesn't work

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out maybe we'll see you know a homepod nano pro max xs se or something

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we'll just have to wait and see so thanks for watching if you like this

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