When the HomePod was introduced back in June 2017, there were already different alternatives on the market that had been working for a while. And some of them with great success - Alexa and Amazon. However, this new Apple team was slow to launch. And the users did not understand why. The first units will begin to be released in a few days. —Not in Spain. And before this happens, Phil Schiller has given an interview to the publication Sound & Vision.
In this interview, Schiller confirms what many of us already knew and that Apple did not hide at any time: the HomePod has been created to improve the experience of listening to music. Is the most advanced sound equipment that Apple has at the moment and what they have been working on in the last few months.
Likewise, Schiller does not want to let slip to comment that although HomePod will listen and learn from your tastes so it can offer you more optimized results in a few seconds, it also drops that HomeKit will also be a fundamental piece of its entire ecosystem. Confirm that we will be able to carry out, thanks to Siri, many of the home automation actions that we carry out with the iPhone (turn on / off smart bulbs; create scenarios, etc.). But also make it clear that not everything you do with Siri and your iPhone can be done with HomePod: "This means that with the HomePod you can do many of the same things that you are used to doing with Siri on the iPhone."
On the other hand, Schiller also comments that the virtual assistant Siri is becoming more and more popular. If Tim Cook commented that it is used daily in more than 500 million devices, Schiller commented in the interview that weekly Siri receives 2.000 billion requests from users.
What is clear is that voice commands are very important to interact with HomePod and Siri. So until the issue of Spanish is not well resolvedWe won't see Apple's smart speaker around here.