HomePod's reviews have been mixed since February 9 in markets such as the US, where some people like its sound quality, while others find it imprudent.
However, all the arguments can not hide HomePod's success in the market. According to statistics, after two weeks of listing, HomePod has accounted for 3% market share in the smart speaker market.
Loup Ventures released a market survey in a sample of 520 American consumers (in the statistics, 520 samples were enough to reflect the reality) and 31% said they own a smart speaker.
Among them Amazon Echo takes the first place with 55% market share, Followed by Google Home 23%, Microsoft Cortana 15%, while the newly listed HomePod occupy 3%, other brands accounted for 4%.
So these users for smart speakers view how?
Data show that 89% of users are satisfied with the smart speaker, 59% chose Satisfaction, and those who chose 'very satisfied' actually accounted for 30%.
Although many highly demanding users may be somewhat unbelievable, Loup Ventures said that figure is in line with expectations, because current users generally require very low intelligent speakers.
In their survey, music was the most frequently used feature at 38%, while 33% of users used smartphones to look up the weather, 31% asked only a few simple questions, and ranked fourth was Inquiries news, sports information, only 12%.
As for the highly anticipated intelligent home voice control function, not many people use only 10% of the original.
Such as Microsoft Cortana, although she scored only 57 in the smart speaker professional test, which is obviously an extremely failed score.
However, in fact, consumers are very satisfied with her performance, because Microsoft's performance in music, weather, simple questions and answers are very good, in line with the user's expectations.
The HomePod is similar, the user of the product said it always recognizes a lot of simple instructions, and music and music related to music control experience is very good, such as adjusting the volume, query the weather and so on.
Although smart home and other aspects of the performance in general, but usually not how to use it.
