If you’ve been holding out to get Apple’s HomePod as a holiday present, we’ve got some bad news for you: the company has delayed the speaker until next year. I was originally due to go on sale in December. In a statement to CNBC, Apple said: “We can’t wait for people to experience HomePod, Apple’s…
If you’ve been holding out to get Apple’s HomePod as a holiday present, we’ve got some bad news for you: the company has delayed the speaker until next year. I was originally due to go on sale in December.
In a statement to CNBC, Apple said:
It’s not clear what the cause for the delay is, especially since the speaker was revealed all the way back in June. Perhaps the company wants to wait out Google’s Home Max, but most likely, it simply needs to make some refinements to the sound quality and/or voice control.
All that being said ‘early 2018’ is also quite the vague target date; hopefully we won’t have to wait beyond January or February.
Apple just delayed its HomePod smart speaker until next year on CNBC
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