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Apple’s original and delayed HomePod finally shipped seven years ago

Eight months after it was first announced, Apple’s first HomePods began shipping on February 9, 2018 — and started a peculiar journey of life, death, and resurrection.

Mesh-covered smart speaker next to a transparent version revealing its internal components, including speakers and electronic parts.
Apple always promotes the HomePod as a powerful music player

There’s been a subtle but fundamental change about the HomePod since it was first launched, and especially since it was first rumored. But it isn’t a technical change, it’s an alteration in how we’ve come round to thinking of it the way Apple always wanted us to.

Today, the HomePod sits in a range of Apple audio devices that includes the later HomePod mini, but also the whole AirPods range. The HomePod is a speaker, and if Apple doesn’t make the absolute finest and greatest audio equipment, it certainly makes the most.

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