Again and as Apple has accustomed us in its latest releases, a little over a week ago the delay in the production of the HomePod was announced, so It will not be an object of desire for this Christmas, something that surely will not have done well to Tim Cook.
But it seems that it is not the only news related to the Apple smart speaker that has come to light these days, since according to Bloomberg, the HomePod creation process from scratch It has been one of the most rugged in memory of the company, a project that was canceled and resumed on several occasions, until it was finally presented last June within the framework of the WWDC.
One of the most curious data, from the development of this project, is that in its first designs, the HomePod it was one meter high with a large number of speakers, a design that surely would have been widely criticized if it had seen the light at some point. This project was in charge of the audio engineers of the Mac, engineers who wanted the sound to be the best on the market and some designs from JBL, Bose and Harman Kardon were fixed.
According to Bloomberg, some engineers were accused of leaking information to Amazon, who launched the Amazon Echo, the company's Alexa-managed smart speaker, two years after Apple had started work on the HomePod. Apple was dedicated to remain absorbed in a project that is again very late since the current market is largely dominated by Amazon devices managed by Alexa, so the company has been forced to change the final functionality that the device should have. smart speaker.
