HomePod makes the Amazon Echo and Google’s Home sound muffled and tinny in comparison. But Siri on HomePod is embarrassingly inadequate, even though that is the primary way you interact with it. To use your voice commands to play music, you will also need to subscribe to Apple’s streaming music service, Apple Music. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyApple also provided statistics on smart speaker usage from the research firm Parks Associates. Questions and AnswersI set up a HomePod, an Echo and a Home in my house and began with a battery of question-and-answer sessions.

Source: New York Times February 06, 2018 13:30 UTC