Apple, on the other hand, simply lopped off the top. For starters, Amazon moved the Echo’s status ring to the bottom of the device, so as to not impede on its perfectly spherical design. There are, however, some key differences in their respective designs. The Mini is nearly exactly the same size as the new, round Echo Dot - which is to say, roughly the size of a softball. Not just for its price, but also its size. Apple wants to sell you a good speaker.Īnd you know what? The HomePod Mini is a surprisingly good speaker. Apple doesn’t appear particularly interested in that approach. In fact, those devices could nearly fall into the category of loss leaders for their respective companies - dirt-cheap ways to get their smart assistants into users’ homes. Those devices run roughly half that price and are both fairly frequently - and quite deeply - discounted. That puts the device in league with the standard Amazon Echo and Google Nest, rather than their respective budget-level counterparts. There’s a focus on little touches that offer a comparably premium experience for its price point. The HomePod Mini is still, in many ways, a uniquely Apple product. This is not, simply put, the Apple Echo Dot. That’s not to say, however, that the companies have met somewhere in the middle. A four-sentence HomePod review (with appendices)Įssentially, Amazon and Google have become more focused on sound and Apple more conscious of price.
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