
The HomePod was $349 at launch, and I thought that was too high. It’s not perfect though, as I wish it was less buggy when acting as an Apple TV speaker, I wish it could talk to my Android devices, and I wish it had a wired connection so I could plug things like my PS4 into it and get great sound from my video games. They sound amazing and have gotten quite a few updates to Siri over the past 2 years to fill in many of the gaps I thought the product had when it launched. In early 2019 I was using Android more and wanted a speaker I could use from an Android device, so I picked up a Sonos One. When I got a HomePod in February 2018, it sounded great to me! I got a second one that summer and started using them in a stereo pair. Before the HomePod, the most expensive speakers I’d ever owned were a pair of $99 Bose Companion 2 speakers for my computer.
