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what's up guys and girls brian tong here and we recently found out that apple has officially announced that the home pot is coming out on February the 9th so what this really is is everything that you need to know things that we've learned before the actual pre-order and that's gonna take place on January the 26th it'll be available in the US the UK and Australia and they haven't officially given the time but we can presume that it'll start at 12 midnight East Coast time that would be nine o'clock p.m. West Coast time the price obviously three hundred and forty nine dollars but if you're talking about other countries in UK it's going to be 319 pounds and then Australia that's gonna be $4.99 for them France and Germany it'll be available later this spring but countries like Canada and others Apple has not given an official timeframe of when it'll be available for them now we also got to see in their press release we learn some new details that we haven't heard before about the home pot specifically now the first thing to know about it will not support multi-users this is something that is common on the Amazon echo or the Google home they made no mention if we'll ever see it and the other thing multi-room support this is really important because Apple talks about how you can buy two of them and use them as stereo speakers that's coming out in a software update later this year again they didn't even narrow down the timeframe and even if you wanted to buy multiple home pods put one in one room and one in the other and play different songs from them that is coming again sometime later this year with a software update another thing we learned here Apple care for the home pod it'll cost $39 now that gives you two years of warranty instead of its original one that also includes telephone support but let's say you're super clumsy and you knock into the home pod and it not and it falls over and breaks if you bring it into a store you'll need to pay an additional thirty nine dollars to get it repaired that's called like incidental or accidental damage you can do that twice so you buy $39 for Apple care and then you have two incidences that you will pay an additional 39 to cover we've seen similar plans right with Apple TV or the iPhone you do have to pay in order to get it serviced but it won't cost like the entire price of the actual home pod so let's just break down what it can do right now first of all it can messages you can set reminders and it also listens to podcasts you'll also get Siri news which is kind of like the latest update also Siri integration this is gonna happen via its six microphone array and also home kit compatibility we know it's going to be able to work with the Apple music subscription but they have not said anything about third-party services it's powered by the a8 processor this is the same processor in the iPhone 6 it has this spatial awareness this is the feature that they really want to tout and finally it will come in two colors white and Space Gray this is important because I know you like to match your decor so we're gonna talk about it now the other big question is will the home pod get better over time absolutely it will it just needs some software updates really to get it up to speed with what else is out there but remember Apple has always positioned this as a smart speaker that has superior sound compared to the competition I think out of the box it most likely is going to versus the Google home and the Amazon echo now how it stacks up against the Google home max which is at 399 that remains to be seen but Apple has positioned this as a speaker with premium sound that is one advantage that it has out of the gates but then let's talk about like the other competition that's really only the main differentiating feature that makes it better than anything else that's out there we know come on Siri still inferior to the Amazon echo and still inferior to the Google assistant we also know that it falls behind when it comes to smart home device compatibility and thirdly it has no app or third-party skill support this is a big deal in the Amazon echo world trust me if you've experienced that you're definitely gonna use something like that so when you really stack up all like the main things that make these speakers important Apple is coming late to the party they're behind it but I think this is really the first time like out of the gates that we've really truly seen that Apple is not only coming late to the party but they're not really bringing anything special by being a late comer and we're just gonna have to wait over time to see how they have all this product now let's be real will it sell of course it's going to sell we know why are you watching this video if you're not gonna buy this thing but also I don't expect Apple to release its actual sales numbers they haven't done it again with the Apple watch which the Apple TV it's it's not gonna sell large enough numbers where they can feel comfortable enough bragging about it after this holiday season when everyone went out in droves we're talking about the tens of millions to buy Amazon echo pieces or Google home pieces so it'll sell but there's no way out of the gates it's going to go bonkers especially at its 349 price point of course I'm gonna buy this because I've got to review it fairly we're gonna see how it stacks up to the competition but there you have it just kind of another Apple byte Apple bits and we'll see what happens