I also have a silicon cover for my remote. It really does stop it form slipping between the cushions. Highly recommend.
random product plug, but recently got one of the homepod minis to use for music at home in my office and have been pleasantly surprised with the sound quality. still a little weird that it works through wifi and not bluetooth, so maybe not a solution for everyone depending on your setup but I have really liked it
i can only imagine. I lost mine for a few days and used the remote app on iPhone. Maybe use that in the rooms toddlers are running wild and hide remote.
From what I’ve heard, the sound quality of HomePods is fantastic. It’s just everything else that holds them back.
that is interesting to read about, had no idea previously that bluetooth had a negative affect on sound quality
Cost, Siri and its capability to act as a smart device , the lack of communicated and regular updates from Apple
https://www.cambridgeaudio.com/usa/en/blog/difference-between-airplay-bluetooth airplay is lossless. Depends on the quality of your source and your speaker if you will hear the difference.
Apple’s best Bluetooth codec still (ALAC) can’t touch the audio quality you get over Wi-Fi. There’s only one Bluetooth codec out there that claims true lossless audio (CD quality), aptX lossless, and even then it’s still not really. The signal is always compressed over Bluetooth. If you took the same HomePod hardware and streamed the same audio to it over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, the Wi-Fi version is going to sound better. If these speakers were consistently using Bluetooth, instead of Wi-Fi, they wouldn’t get near the acclaim they do for sound quality. They’d be just another Bluetooth speaker. And even with all of that said, AirPlay over Wi-Fi can still only support the lowest version of lossless audio (still better than Bluetooth though).
You aren’t refuting what I said at all. I never said HomePods would sound the same using a Bluetooth source vs something streamed or lossless. I said you’re wrong in your claim that the HomePods sound good because they don’t have Bluetooth. They could have put Bluetooth in the HomePod and it would have zero impact on how music from Apple Music sounds. I have to imagine Bluetooth audio is like <10% of audio sources for smart speakers so that’s probably a much more compelling reason to remove it.
FFS, the entire reason the conversation started was because someone was literally complaining that he couldn’t stream to the speaker over Bluetooth. If people could, they would, and then they’d wonder why this speaker is better than any other Bluetooth speaker. So for him, yes the reason the sound quality on the speaker is great, is because it doesn’t have Bluetooth. Not even giving people the option means consistently better sound quality from the speaker. Also, I don’t know what a “Bluetooth source” is. There’s no such thing. If you download a lossless version of a song from Apple Music, the source is the exact same. If you send that audio to the speaker over Bluetooth, it can’t play at the source bitrate. The actual argument you are making is that having Bluetooth playback codecs available in the HomePod wouldn’t necessarily make AirPlay sound worse (or inversely, not having Bluetooth playback codecs doesn’t make AirPlay sound better), and sure that’s true.
If a speaker is getting audio sent to it over Bluetooth, what is the data source from the HomePod’s point a view? You’re being oddly pedantic and it’s engaging my pedantry
I see what you’re saying here. I will also throw in that most reviews I’ve seen of the HomePod say it sound quality is much better than other smart speakers so I thought you were referring to the HomePods overall sound quality not just the possible difference he’s experiencing. kezarmyaj stop using Bluetooth you dingus
I’m still running an older, but upgraded (mid 2013..?) MacBook Pro with mini DisplayPort. Anyone know if any of the adapters that have a dual HDMI, or a mini to usb-c (for a dock) will work to hook up multiple hdmi monitors, or am I stuck with singe-hdmi output on that old of a machine?
I'm looking into potentially upgrading my 2017 MBP 13" to either the new 13" MPB with the M2 or the new Macbook Air with the M2. Bestbuy has the MBP discounted by $200 and I'll get another $200 with trade-in. Anyone have a suggestion either way? I do nothing fancy at all with my laptops.
hey nerds I need a new phone, battery is on the decline. get a 14 or wait until 15 comes out? tia nfm i love you all
I use an iPad Air to do it once in awhile. It’s alright. A laptop would be better, obviously. Honestly if I mirrored my screen to an actual monitor it’d probably be more than fine. There is some weirdness with the on-screen keyboard, and some of the keys on my iPad keyboard don’t work correctly. But overall, it’s fine.
My iPhone decided to start displaying the podcast or music I’m listening on my entire Lock Screen, instead of seeing my background with a small box at the bottom showing the audio. HALP.
xfinity is offering me 500 bucks off a phone to upgrade any iphone. I have an 11. they sell a 13 for 729. and a 14 for 829+. Outside of a better camera and battery life, I can't really muster up a good reason to trade in. My phone is fine enough. Any actual compelling reason to move up to a newer model?
the 13 implemented a higher hz and variable refresh screen so it's a lot smoother to use when scrolling around, and the 14 came out with the dynamic island thing. neither of these things are gotta-haves though, so if the camera is sufficient and battery life isn't trash then there isn't a compelling reason IMO. i think a battery replacement for your phone would be like $100-150 so you could compare that as a discount to getting a completely new phone for a net of $100-200.
News has been pretty scarce on what the fix is, but I’ve never had them push an update like this before so it must be critical.