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Accidental Tech Podcast

488: Pebbles on the Scale

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 115 minutes

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0:00.0

So I have a minor home pod update.

0:03.8

Oh, did you source a new to you big ass home pod?

0:07.8

Or did you do a factory reset?

0:09.4

Because a lot of people suggested that,

0:10.6

hey, just factory reset those suckers, they'll be good as new.

0:12.9

I have done that before.

0:14.2

I did it about two months ago, actually recently.

0:17.6

So I have done that before and it seemed to last maybe a week or two

0:23.0

before it reverted back to the old buggy behavior.

0:25.4

Cool.

0:26.0

And so I think it was probably just coincidence.

0:28.8

Or like, you know, some other, you know, anyway.

0:31.7

And I have yet, I've so far as yet not gone through the route

0:35.5

of trying to get replacement big home pods.

0:38.5

Because my theory is that the problems are partly, you know,

0:43.1

my physical units having problems and flaking out and dying.

0:46.5

But also partly, I think there's a major, you know,

0:49.1

software neglect going on.

0:50.7

And those old home pods were slow as crap to begin with.

0:53.4

And so clearly they were like struggling to run the software

0:57.0

they came with, let alone whatever it's been updated to now.

1:00.8

So anyway, I did, as I mentioned, I had briefly tried a B&O product.

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