what's good world welcome to fresh tech TV and today we're gonna be reviewing
the Apple home pod now I wasn't even going to review this product and bring
it to the channel but I figured it's a pretty big point of interest right now
and a lot of you guys out there may be contemplating getting it for yourselves
and I wanted to give you my thoughts and opinion on it before you decided to pull
the trigger so to give you guys the rundown on the speaker this is Apple's
entry into the smart home speaker in competition with the Google home max in
the Alexa the home pod has several microphones and speakers and is equipped
with Siri and is touting the best sounding speaker that you can buy for
the price so their focus with this is not so much of the AI and the voice
assistance but actually the sound quality of the speaker which is for good
reason because as we all know Syria isn't the greatest so I'm going to go
ahead and break this review down into three parts as usual be good be bad and
also my final verdict starting off with the bed and of course first on my list
is Siri of course you've seen other reviews out there we're on the speaker
you're not able to do certain things yet such as set calendar events and all in
all it's pretty limited as far as the voice assistant suite goes when you're
comparing them to the Google home max and the Alexa they've been in the game a
little bit longer they have more skin in the game and they have definitely worked
through the kinks and evolved as time has gone on Apple is a little late to
the party the other thing that I really don't like about the speaker is the fact
that if you don't have an iPhone you can't use this really at all you can't
set the speaker up without an Apple device you also are limited to Apple
music when it comes to having a full control over your music experience so if
you subscribe to like Spotify or you know Google Play Music or any of those
other services you're pretty much out of luck the other thing surprisingly that I
don't like about this speaker is the sound I mean it sounds good don't get me
wrong it sounds decent but when you get it to higher levels the bass bottoms out
there's no low end on at high volumes and I think that's mostly attributed to
the fact that it is so small and compact Apple definitely goes for the aesthetics
and they want to make something that's you know revolutionary style wise but
they kind of compromise on functionality so in order for the speaker to really
have more bass output it has to be larger air has to be going around those
subwoofers inside of it and it just falls flat
my personal opinion I've used the Google home max extensively at work and I think
it sounds much better the bass is way heavier the mids and highs are a bit
crisper in my opinion I feel like this speaker once again just bottoms out when
it comes to high volumes in high bass it definitely over exaggerate the mids and
highs and high volumes one of my biggest problems with the speaker is oftentimes
when I ask Siri a question my Apple watch on my iPhone started to respond
even times on actually display music my iPhone started playing music and that's
something that they definitely have to get under control if your home pot is
around none of your other devices should be reacting to your voice hey Siri play
King fuck play Kings day the Black Panther soundtrack I couldn't find Kings
to play on Apple music or in your library hey Siri hey Siri play oh my god
play tango am I going by the Pretty Reckless moving on to the things that I
actually like about the speaker first and foremost the design is a gift in the
curse it does look nice but it's not very functional but it definitely is
great for you know put it on your coffee table or on your desk it's a good
centerpiece it looks good the build quality and everything that we come to
expect from Apple was there the fabric mesh the weight of it and feels like a
quality product when you unbox it the presentation is definitely there the
first impression is amazing but as time goes on you just realize that the
speaker kind of overstays its welcome which leads me into my final verdict I
know you guys probably didn't expect for this review to go this quickly but
honestly the speaker isn't worth it right now this fills for sure like a
first gen product hopefully over time with the second generation they give the
subs more space so that way it has an even distribution across to all
spectrums of sound from lows mids to highs
all volumes right now this isn't a very good sounding speaker and it doesn't do
voice assistance well either all in all this is just a $350 paperweight that
makes noise my recommendation is to hold out for the home pot to hopefully has a
better design for sound quality and hopefully they compromise a little bit
on ecstatics and make it a little bit more functional over time I don't doubt
that you know the improve Siri hopefully with future update Syria becomes a
little bit more capable and offers more down the line thank you guys for
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