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Siri underperforms on Apple's HomePod Apple's HomePod is the best-sounding smart speaker on the market, but lags behind competitors like Google and Amazon in terms of functionality and breadth of use cases, according to early reviews on the newly released product.
The $349 speaker was first announced in June 2017 and will be available in stores starting this Friday, following an initial delay.
The long-awaited speaker is in essence Apple's response to the burgeoning smart speaker market that Amazon and, to a lesser extent, Google, have already established a firm footing in; Amazon and Google have shipped a combined 45 million smart speakers in the US as of Q4 2017, according to estimates from CIRP.
Business Insider Intelligence analyst Jessica Smith has the full story.
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| | | The People's Bank of China (PBOC) seems to have doubts about Tencent's and Alibaba's efforts to create solutions that will enable them issue credit scores using data on citizens' purchases and social behavior. Read More → | | | | |
| | | Alphabet and Amazon continued to lean on cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) as the chief drivers of revenue growth in Q4 2017. Read More → | | | | |
| | | Snapchat has begun selling merchandise in a new digital store in the Discover section of the app, Ad Age reports. The move marks the first time Snapchat has sold its own branded merchandise in-app. Read More → | | | | |
| | | Facebook aims to give more content creators the opportunity to make shows for the company's TV-like section, Watch, in a bid to more directly rival YouTube. Read More → | | | | |
| | | Visa posted $2 trillion in payments volume on 30.5 billion processed transactions in Q4 2017, marking a 10% annual volume increase on a constant currency basis, and 12% transaction growth. Read More → | | | | |
| | | Amazon acquired Whole Foods for $13.7 billion on June 16, 2017, and now, over seven months later, the purchase has appeared on Amazon's annual balance sheet. Read More → | | | | |
| | | PayPal shed some interesting light on the progress of its burgeoning digital peer-to-peer (P2P) business, which includes Venmo and remittance company Xoom in addition to PayPal proper, in its Q4 2017 earnings report. Read More → | | | | |
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| | | Apple shipped 8 million Apple Watches in Q4 2017, marking the best quarter ever not just for Apple, but for any wearable vendor. Read More → | | | | |
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