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hey Siri stop hey Siri close the shades the home pod is apple's long-awaited answer to amazon's echo google's home macs and the Sonos one but the tech giant wants its 349 dollars Siri powered wireless speaker to be much more than a voice enabled smart home assistant in every marketing campaign Apple makes it clear that home pod is a speaker first and everything else is secondary it's true that the home pod delivers impressive audio slightly better than the home Mac's still it isn't perfect apple claims home pod is an omnidirectional speaker but it has definite sweet spots where the music sounds better particularly when it's in the middle of a room my iPhone occasionally answered questions I asked home pod when using hey Siri as a wake freeze you're pretty much tied to Apple music for audio but if you want to use services like Spotify you'll have to send them to home pod from your phone on the speakers display you'll find volume up and down buttons when audio is playing press and hold the center to bring up Siri without having to say hey Siri a variety of taps let you play pause and skip music straight from home pod everything else is done either with voice commands or through Apple's home app on iOS home pod setup process takes a minute tops and your new speaker immediately shows up in the home apps list of home kid devices in addition to playing music and podcasts the home pod can tell you the news and answer general questions about the weather it can also control your home kit devices just like your iPhone and thanks to advanced machine learning Siri is more conversational than ever hey Siri who is Bob Dylan Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter author and painter who has been hey Siri figurin pop how old is he Bob Dylan is 76 home pod is a smart device with solid sound quality that will likely improve over time although pricy I can confidently recommend it to Apple customers who are sold on a home kit smart home but audio files simply looking for a great speaker system can find better sound quality for roughly the same price and if you're already heavily invested in an Alexa or Google assistant smart home you won't find much value here you