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what's up Apple bye nation this is another kind of one of those small little add-ons we like to throw in here I guess we should start calling them Apple bits or something like that but look the big news that just dropped is that Apple officially said that they're going to be delaying the home pod for release sometime in early 2018 I don't know how you feel about that so let's first of all just check out their official statement we can't wait for people to experience home pod apples break through wireless speaker for the home but we need a little more time before it's ready for our customers we'll start shipping in the US UK and Australia in early 2018 and so when I see that quote in here it there's really two reactions that you probably have for all the Apple fanboys the diehards are like come on Apple get it done get it done right I'm ok I'm patient I'm willing to wait we want the right product there's also another side of me that thinks ok hey this is two years back-to-back air pods last year we're delayed the home pod this year is delayed these are two hot new products that you're supposed to deliver in the holiday season get it together you know I think there's also a part of me that says hey I just bought an iPhone and spent a thousand bucks I could use the time to save it for that money but I think that ultimately we want a good product but the same time don't over promise for us and under-deliver so the in sales you want to always kind of under-promise and over-deliver but now we're getting this two years back to back it's just not a good look we talked about how the air pods were delayed last year and if we want to say okay when does this happen where these missed steps happened before historically well let's look at the air pods they were announced at Apple's September keynote back in 2016 they were promised for late October and they didn't come in late October in fact Apple had a statement very similar to the home pod so this is what they said at the time the early response the air pods has been incredible we don't believe in shipping a product before it's ready and we need a little more time before air pods are ready for our customers so that's what they told us sounds a lot like what we saw earlier with the home pod but this is what happened it didn't go out to late October they ended up starting to ship or make them available to purchase the air pods that is December the 13th so that's about a two and a half three month delay from when they originally expect come then on top of that not only were they available December 13 I like to say available there was a six week shipping time on them and that went as far out as like late July of 2017 so pretty much even though they were available they were really hard to get we know Apple had some issues getting them out but then also they didn't have enough inventory to support it so it's not like you're saying okay they're here they're ready people couldn't buy them until recently so that's kind of a boo-boo on their side but you also look at some of these other historical things this is not their first misstep you go back as far back as like 2011 and I don't know if you guys from the gals remember the iPhone 4 the iPhone 4 white model was delayed somewhere around nine months because they had some issues with UV protection but this was a phone that came out nine months later the the thing though is that they still delivered the iPhone 4 on time it's just that they didn't deliver the iPhone 4 in its white color on time so now we go back to the home pod and we think about okay is this product look when I first saw the product when they announced it it was a little underwhelming for me compared to what's out there we know it's a 349 price tag it looks like a lot of things it could be like a scratch post for a cat it looks like a big ol roasted Marsh - marshmallow like a big ball of yarn you see a fabric store it could be a lot of things fine let's get over the looks but from the technical aspects right you have this 360-degree sound speaker ray that's nice but the two technical things Siri Siri is a whole lot better in 2017 I will give it credit but it's still not nearly as good as what the Google assistant is it's not nearly as good as what Amazon's echo has with Alexa so they're already behind in that aspect and then when you also talk about music services from all documentation and all indications even to developers the only native music service that is going to be supported on the home pod is just Apple music and to me that's an issue makes it just a really limited device coming out of the gates so now let's like look back and think about how Apple used to approach this and yeah you could call me old fogey like oh those days are gone look Apple is a different company but back in the day Apple the SJ era they would surprise us but then they would actually deliver on that surprise within the date range that they that they stole it wouldn't be three or four months later it wouldn't be you know 12 9 12 months until a product could actually be purchased and that's that breeds goodwill that was part of the magic of Apple and when you do this two years back to back and you don't deliver during the holiday season right when everyone is ready to buy not only are you losing an opportunity the Google home max is coming out so knows one's platform they're all there they're gonna be ready to purchase an apples home pod that should have been part of that mix that's already behind it smart speakers is not part of that mix and when you start kind of disappointing your consumer base and just the general perception it's it becomes a letdown in Apple shouldn't want to feel like they want to be anywhere associated with letting down their customers it wasn't that way before and it shouldn't be moving forward so fine well let's talk about they say early 2018 let's be real that's gonna be more like March 2018 they're not gonna rush it for January Apple has sometimes had March events maybe we'll see something with mac books or with Macs and iPads in March but I wouldn't expect it like Oh early 2018 this thing's coming in January I could be wrong we're shooting this just to talk about it but let me know what you think Are you disappointed in this does this change how you feel about Apple do you love the fact that they're holding off and you don't care just give it to us when it's ready I just think even when it's ready it's not gonna be that great of a Wow Apple product and ultimately it's just a bad look and ultimately it's a bad apple so thanks for watching this leave your feedback in the comments let's talk about it and there you go that's another Apple bites Apple bits wrapped up piece you