Don't be surprised. Apple's HomePod, their revolutionary speaker, is having slumping sales after gathering 10% of the market (percentage calculated by analysts). HomeKit simply does not come close to having the amount of integrations that Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant have. Additionally, couple this fact with the higher cost of buying the product -- it makes it less viable overall. While Apple wants to tout this as "speaker first", it's only a true smart speaker for Apple Music while having only AirPlay support for anything non-Apple. Do you have a HomePod? ||

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