Speaking of this smart speaker market, can be described as the ever-changing, frequent Brilliant.Not only have the predecessors of Echo smart speaker sits, but later Lynx elf, Xiaomi students love to catch up, let the smart speaker market flourishing.
Speaking of this smart speaker, I am afraid there is one we will not forget, that is, Apple's HomePod. Since last year after the conference was unveiled, so far there is no sale, is it Apple began to retreat?
According to news January 24, Apple has announced that the $ 349 Smartphone HomePod will be listed on February 9, consumers can start booking before Friday, but HomePod is currently limited to the United States, Britain and Australia, the three countries Sales, which will be launched this spring in France and Germany.
Apple's HomePod smart speakers, what highlights worth attention?
The Apple HomePod smart speaker combines the power of advanced home music speakers and personal assistant Siri to control audio playback, smart home accessories, and perform other voice assistance tasks.In addition to being able to directly invoke the Siri Assistant via voice for manipulation, HomePod also Support touch gestures, but more complicated.
1, touch gestures
The Apple HomePod smart speaker, which is available on the market, features a touchpad with circular zones of the top two volume '+' - 'keys for a variety of gestures. Consumers can tap through different clicks Play, pause, and switch, for example, click to play and pause, and double click to toggle the next song.
Apple's HomePod smart speakers in the gesture operation, click Settings is more in line with the habit, but with such a large space, double-click to jump to the next one is rather strange. And there are three consecutive clicks to switch to the previous song and point Hold down the top to call Siri's operation, in fact, is not conducive to consumer operation, more trouble, consumers are best to learn before using it.
2, voice control
The Apple HomePod smartphones on sale, the main scene is indoors, of course, voice control is the mainstream, which is no exception.This smart speaker can wake up Siri voice to change songs operation, more natural.
Apple's gestures and voice manipulation of both the choice of the more biased towards the latter, so do not set more buttons, but will be more features make a combination of keys, the appearance is more beautiful. And, in the configuration , The Apple HomePod smart speaker features an exclusive A8 chip, a larger woofer and seven tweeters that provide a wide range of sound fields while automatically sensing the room's surroundings and adjusting its internal speakers to optimize its sound .
Intelligent speaker market who can come out on top?
The Apple HomePod smart speakers for sale, has aroused everyone's onlookers.However, in essence, the present can only say like a speaker nothing more.
The Apple HomePod smart speakers ready for sale, the hardware features, the Amazon Echo only two buttons, power button and mute button, Google Home some more gestures with the slider to adjust the volume of the action, so it is designed than the Amazon And Google to be complicated.Moreover, Apple positioned HomePod smart speakers as iPhone accessories, it supports iTunes music library songs, music library is not open enough will lead to its loss of part of the market again, and now China is not in the first sale of the list .
Whether Apple's upcoming HomePod smartphones will be on sale in the market remains to be seen, but when China already has so many smartphones, Apple is not only not going to be available in China, but it also compares its function settings Tedious, can be described as losing people's hearts one after another.
With the continuous rise of domestic manufacturers, selling sentiment has become the past, not open enough, a single product operation, has lost the ability to compete in the market, I believe the day of sale will know.
