Have you done your research ? Echo 4th gen has built in wifi extender, built in person detector and the most important of all it can work as zigbee hub. Plus you can connect echo to your fire tv/stick and you get 2 rear firing speakers.
I just sold my two HomePods and good riddance. Those things are trash compared to Alexa ecosystem. Biggest thing is ability to group smart home devices, Apple wants to keep it “simple” so they do not allow you to do anything. Trash. Second thing is Alexa has better voice recognition. My wife almost killed me when Siri didn’t recognize her voice for the 100th time in a week. Lastly, the echo ecosystem has the quickest replies. Apple is only good for phones and air pods.
Setup should go to Apple. It makes sense someone that doesn’t own apple devices will not buy a HomePod. And volume on HomePod is not slow, it just has smaller increments which is a good thing!
I feel like alexa is lacking in the smart sense now as its very dumb compared to when you ask google a question. as i have it on my phone and since they added the new Ai just feels like alexa is outdated in comparison, and google sounds much smoother with answers. i hope they update alexa soon as i have too many amazon devices.
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Have you done your research ? Echo 4th gen has built in wifi extender, built in person detector and the most important of all it can work as zigbee hub. Plus you can connect echo to your fire tv/stick and you get 2 rear firing speakers.
I just sold my two HomePods and good riddance. Those things are trash compared to Alexa ecosystem. Biggest thing is ability to group smart home devices, Apple wants to keep it “simple” so they do not allow you to do anything. Trash. Second thing is Alexa has better voice recognition. My wife almost killed me when Siri didn’t recognize her voice for the 100th time in a week. Lastly, the echo ecosystem has the quickest replies. Apple is only good for phones and air pods.
Setup should go to Apple. It makes sense someone that doesn’t own apple devices will not buy a HomePod.
And volume on HomePod is not slow, it just has smaller increments which is a good thing!
Great comparison
For being spherical and cylindrical, I would like to think the sosund from the speakers would come out from all four directions.
I feel like alexa is lacking in the smart sense now as its very dumb compared to when you ask google a question. as i have it on my phone and since they added the new Ai just feels like alexa is outdated in comparison, and google sounds much smoother with answers. i hope they update alexa soon as i have too many amazon devices.
The Homepod is more than twice the price of the other two.
echo 4th gen was launched 2020 same as the nest audio
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