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True, but as impressive as the Google version is it sounds like a nat farting in a tin can.
You can't get a decent speaker for sub £150 IMO, let alone one with smart gubbins in. It looks worth the price to me, tempted to sell on my B&O speaker in the bedroom and replace it with that.Just costed up a MacBook, eGPU and Display, not miles away from iMac Pro... hmmm...
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nah, surely the real deal-breaker is sound quality, a $50 device that has a speaker and recognizes your voice isn't the same product as a £400 sound system containing multiple speakers, smart EQ and echo cancellation
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That HomePod is a real Apple product, a year or two late to the market and twice the price of the competition. Will be interesting to see if it manages to gain traction through the Apple name and looking pretty.
The real deal-breaker will be how good the voice recognition is. The Amazon Dot ($50) that I have is generally decent but when it doesn't understand you it gets irritating fairly quickly.