{"id":6728,"date":"2017-11-18T08:57:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T22:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=6728"},"modified":"2017-11-18T08:57:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T22:57:45","slug":"apples-homepod-smart-speaker-delayed-until-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/apples-homepod-smart-speaker-delayed-until-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple’s HomePod smart speaker delayed until 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Apple announced this morning that its premium HomePod smart speaker won\u2019t be making the company\u2019s initial December ship date. According to a brief statement issued by the company, the production process needs \u201ca little more time\u201d to bake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ouch. Huge miss with that holiday window sailing on by.<\/p>\n

I can’t help but feel this has become all too common for Apple over the last decade. I miss the days when they unveiled a product during a keynote and it was available right then.<\/p>\n

This routine of announcing product six months out is doing nothing but damage as they continue to miss shipping windows or have constrained supplies.<\/p>\n

Yes they build up hype and get some rough estimates with pre-order numbers, which is great for them as a manufacturer, but as a consumer (and Apple fanboy) it feels like another kick in the balls.<\/p>\n

Source: Apple pushes HomePod release to early 2018 | TechCrunch<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple announced this morning that its premium HomePod smart speaker won\u2019t be making the company\u2019s initial December ship…\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[482],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}