Today, two years ago, HomePod began marketing in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom. Since its launch, Apple has not disclosed exactly how its Speaker and Siri sales have been and combines its results with the company's clothing and accessories. With a launch price of € 349, reduced to € 329 in April 2019, it is estimated that HomePod will cover only 5% of Apple's accessories industry, its main claims AirPods and Apple Watch, at rising prices.
The biggest obstacle for the HomePod is its high price compared to the competition. Amazon with Echo and Google and its Google Home offers a wide variety of models at cheaper prices compared to the Cupertino speaker. That could change if Apple introduced a second HomePod with more restricted features. and a sharp price, as the Bloomberg agency pointed out in a report released last August on its future product position.
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The concept of the new HomePod is likely to reduce its cost by reducing the cost of its features, according to Bloomberg. They would move from the existing 7 tweeters to just 2, which would greatly reduce their costs, although as we mentioned there is no guarantee.
The Apple speaker comes out very well with criticism on what the audio quality is referring to, but balks Siri experience doesn't work like other devices. Apart from this, it has received updates and news since its launch which has made it very effective as support for many voices, sounds or the sound of several rooms if we are lucky to have more than one occasion.
For now we will never know for sure when we will see the second generation