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these are the top five reasons not to buy a smart speaker Apple just introduced the world to its home pod a speaker that focuses on music first along with Siri it's up against Amazon and Google but here's the thing there are plenty of reasons to stay away from smart speakers in general let's get to it and number five you're paranoid yeah you a lot of people get hurt when they find out a device is constantly listening to them sure the speaker only starts talking to you when you use the activation word but it's microphones are on unless you mute them but speaker with ears scares you avoid smart speakers and number four the money the Amazon echo dot is a very low cost smart speaker at fifty dollars however it can easily become a gateway to spending a bunch of money on other smart devices just of your smart speaker seems more useful hmm be nice to control my TV with an echo maybe I need to get a Harmony remote oh maybe I need a bunch of smart balls while I'm at it what about some smart outlets I should get some of those too and number three it's still awkward do you like yelling at tech because you'll be yelling at your smart speaker I'm not saying the home or echo have problems hearing in my experience the problem comes in the understanding part getting wrong answers from a smart speaker is less than ideal and before you know it you're yelling at your speaker to stop giving you useless responses and number two you've got Bluetooth speakers there's your favorite music service work on that piece of hardware who cares if you just have a regular Bluetooth speaker if whatever service you like runs on your computer tablet or phone you can just send that audio over without much difficulty Bluetooth is standard and good Bluetooth speakers are pretty cheap these days and the number one you've got a phone if you've got a bunch of smart home tech in your home odds are you can control your whole house using apps on your phone now the question becomes do you have a smart phone of course you do interacting with your phone it's relatively simple and it usually works as you think it would want to ask about sports scores or get other information fire up a browser or search on your phone and the crazy thing is you'll probably get all the information you need what's that you don't care you still want a smart speaker check out our reviews at CNN com am i as a cardinal see you online especially you paranoid guy