Apple today announced plans for a smart
speaker named HomePod to compete with Amazon Echo, Google Home, and other smart speakers.
Not exact matches
Sony's LF - S50G
speaker may have a terrible
name, but it looks almost exactly like the
HomePod and has Google Assistant built - in.
And say what you will about the
HomePod name itself, or whether or not a superior audio experience will even be able to lure buyers away from the more wallet - friendly Echo and Google Home, it's hard not to marvel at the engineering resources Apple poured into its forthcoming smart
speaker.
So it's baffling that the
HomePod can't set more than one timer or
name those timers; anyone who cooks with a smart
speaker in their kitchen knows how incredibly useful that is.