Apple announced new home music speaker, HomePod, designed to work with Apple Music and equipped with artificial intelligence capabilities

Briefing

Apple announced new home music speaker, HomePod, designed to work with Apple Music and equipped with artificial intelligence capabilities

June 21, 2017

Briefing

  • Apple's HomePod – Apple introduced HomePod, voice-control enabled, wireless music speaker designed to work with Apple Music, capable of providing music recommendations based on user preference as well as additional information through advanced searches
  • Device Specifications – Pill-shaped, Siri-operated circular speaker, equipped with seven beam-forming tweeter array, custom-made woofer, Apple A8 chip, multi-channel echo cancellation, and real-time acoustic modeling
  • Commercial Availability – Available initially in U.S., U.K., and Australia starting December 2017, with starting price of $349 (US$)
  • Competitors – Expected to directly compete with Amazon's Echo Google's Home, and Sonos

Accelerator

Sector

Information Technology

Organization

Apple Inc.

Source

Original Publication Date

June 5, 2017

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