According to data provided by market intelligence agency Slice Intelligence for financial media, HomePod was strong at the beginning of the listing. In terms of sales volume, the United States accounted for about one-third of the market in the last week of January, but HomePod officially started selling. After three weeks, the sales volume quickly declined and the market share was only about 4%.
HomePod's sales plummeted and inventory began to accumulate. Apple CEO Tim Cook, who hated stocks, could not tolerate it. Adjusting orders is not surprising. It is understood that Apple stores sell less than 10 HomePods per day.
The HomePod problem is not in the hardware itself, but the voice assistant Siri is not smart enough to make HomePod hardware difficult to extend. As long as software updates Siri upgrade, it may increase the HomePod sales, so it is still too early to sentence HomePod to death.
John Giannandrea, the head of Google's artificial intelligence (AI) department, has announced that he has left the company and has led the Apple camp to lead the AI team. Its main task is to improve the Siri function.