Apple HomePod (product discontinued March 2021)

[DParker (Dan P Parker)]

About 2 and a half weeks ago I made the following prediction about a potential Apple foray into this market:

@DParker

[quote=“jkp, post:8, topic:87688, full:true”]Will be interesting to see if Apple enters the market this year.[/quote]If they do, I predict the product will cost 150% as much as the competition’s and will only interface with services/devices that contractually obligate themselves to buying proprietary hardware from Apple’s vendors and certifying their services against some ridiculously cost-prohibitive certification regime.

The Echo is $179 at full price, and 150% of that would be $268.50. Since Apple’s actually slapped a price of $349 on the device it looks like I low-balled their hubris by a significant margin.