Apple announces HomePod speaker to take on Sonos
Apple has officially announced the HomePod speaker today, which the company claims will reinvent music in homes like the iPod did for music on the go.
The new smart speaker features a seven-speaker array of tweeters. Additionally, there’s a four-inch upward facing subwoofer, and an Apple A8 chip. The speaker features “spatial awareness,” which allows it to automatically tune the sound to the space that the speaker is in. Apple also showed off two HomePod speakers working together for improved sound.
HomePod is obviously compatible with Apple Music, and can wirelessly access the full library of songs from Apple Music. There’s a six microphone array, which is used to access Siri, which has been upgraded with even more capacity when it…