First time in a while I'm actually anticipating an #Apple launch. My office HomePod died but with rumors of a new one, I'm sitting on my hands until the Sep event. Womp womp.
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I’m actually happy with the HomePod mini as-is, and yes I do use Siri on it quite often for the things Siri is good at.
The only thing I’d like to see in a new mini is a much better speaker. I have cheaper Bluetooth speakers that sound far better. Music on the current HomePod mini sounds like someone is suffocating it with a pillow.
@chartier We find that the HomePod Mini is often unable to identify my wife by voice, although I think it's gotten a bit better within the last year or so. But even worse is the game of roulette it plays, in which device will actually answer - the one in this room, or the one in the room down the hall for some reason. 😅
@chartier The fact that the HomePod is frequently the device that answers "hey dingus", and yet HomePod Siri is much less capable than Siri AI, is also a concern. (I guess Apple want us to buy a lot of new HomePods soon... 🤑)
@codemonkey85 Yeah I imagine that might be the catch. The original HomePod was surely not designed for AI, and surely not for Apple's approach to AI which is, in part, to run as much on-device as possible.
Personally, I could take or leave all that stuff. I actually like Siri for the things it's good for, and I just want a much better speaker inside. Current mini sounds so terrible. *So* terrible.
@chartier we used to use ours as speakers for the living room TV, but we gave up on that 😅
