{"id":342820,"date":"2017-06-06T08:24:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T00:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/06\/05\/tim-cook-says-homepod-will-blow-people-away\/"},"modified":"2017-06-06T08:24:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T00:24:34","slug":"tim-cook-says-homepod-experience-will-blow-people-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/tim-cook-says-homepod-experience-will-blow-people-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Cook Says HomePod Experience Will Blow People Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[unable to retrieve full-text content]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-06-05\/apple-ceo-says-trump-advisory-councils-aren-t-productive\">interview<\/a> today with Bloomberg TV, Apple CEO Tim Cook said customers will be &#8220;blown away&#8221; by the experience of the HomePod.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/06\/apple-homepod-space-gray.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"657\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-568840\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/> &#8220;I think people are going to love it. I know they are,&#8221; said Cook. &#8220;I think they&#8217;re going to be blown away by the experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When questioned about why a customer should choose to purchase the HomePod over the Amazon Echo or Google Home, especially considering it&#8217;s the most expensive of the three, Cook said Apple&#8217;s focus was on creating a &#8220;breakthrough speaker&#8221; that delivers a high-quality audio experience in the home.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;What we tried to do is build something that is a breakthrough speaker first,&#8221; said Cook. &#8220;Music is deep in our DNA, dating back to iTunes and iPod. We wanted something that, number one, sounded unbelievable. I think when people listen to it, they&#8217;re going to be shocked over the quality of the sound.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L-1n_1yuVoQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><center><em>A portion of Apple CEO Tim Cook&#8217;s interview with Bloomberg TV today<\/em><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nNevertheless, Cook acknowledged that both Apple and customers want a speaker that does more than simply play music.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Of course, it does a lot of other things, right, and all of those are important as well, but we wanted a really high-quality audio experience,&#8221; said Cook.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of things you can do with it,&#8221; he added. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of things that Siri knows how to do from the phone. We&#8217;ll start with a patch of those as [Apple marketing chief] Phil [Schiller] showed today during the keynote, and then you can bet there&#8217;s a nice follow-on activity there as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cook said Apple has been working on the HomePod for &#8220;multiple years,&#8221; and as usual, it wasn&#8217;t focused on being first to the market.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We didn&#8217;t have the first MP3 player. We didn&#8217;t have the first smartphone. We didn&#8217;t have the first tablet,&#8221; he said. &#8220;For us, it&#8217;s not about being first. It&#8217;s about being the best, and giving users an experience that delights them every time. We don&#8217;t let that impatience result in shipping something that&#8217;s just not great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cook also briefly reflected on today&#8217;s iOS 11 announcements, ARKit serving as a &#8220;foundation&#8221; for Apple&#8217;s augmented reality efforts, and why he elected against joining U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s various councils and committees. <\/p>\n<p>HomePod will be available in December for &#36;349 in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom. It&#8217;ll launch in other countries next year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkback\">Related Roundup: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/siri-speaker\/\">Siri Smart Speaker<\/a> <br \/>Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/tim-cook\/\">Tim Cook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/bloomberg-tv\/\">Bloomberg TV<\/a> <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/tim-cook-says-homepod-will-blow-people-away.2048752\/\">Discuss this article<\/a> in our forums<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=Qr17VK6AyQQ:dbGxDfhNxx0:6W8y8wAjSf4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=6W8y8wAjSf4\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=Qr17VK6AyQQ:dbGxDfhNxx0:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/MacRumors-All\/~4\/Qr17VK6AyQQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-342820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}