Eight months after it was first announced, Apple’s first HomePods began shipping on February 9, 2018 — and started a peculiar journey of life, death, and resurrection.
Apple always promotes the HomePod as a powerful music player
There’s been a subtle but fundamental change about the HomePod since it was first launched, and especially since it was first rumored. But it isn’t a technical change, it’s an alteration in how we’ve come round to thinking of it the way Apple always wanted us to.
Today, the HomePod sits in a range of Apple audio devices that includes the later HomePod mini, but also the whole AirPods range. The HomePod is a speaker, and if Apple doesn’t make the absolute finest and greatest audio equipment, it certainly makes the most.