Apple HomePod: Worth $350?
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🗓️ 6 June 2017
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Apple uses the Worldwide Developer Conference to unveil “HomePod”, a new home assistant. David Kretzmann analyzes the device and shares why he believes Bose and Sonos have more to fear than Amazon and Google. Plus we dig into the latest quarter from Casey’s General Stores and the rise of eSports.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, June 6th. |
| 0:03.4 | Welcome to Market Fullry. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today from Supernova, David Kretsman. |
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| 0:09.2 | Good to be here, Chris. |
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| 0:38.6 | Apple because the big worldwide developer conference was yesterday and the headline and it seems like this is the case |
| 0:45.1 | every year with Apple when they have the Worldwide Developer Conference, they announce a bunch of things |
| 0:50.1 | but almost every year they do this there is one thing that is grabbing all the headlines and this year it's the home pod |
| 0:56.9 | Which is on the surface this appears to be Apple's answer to the Google Home Assistant and the Amazon Echo, but it certainly is priced at a premium. |
| 1:12.0 | Yeah, $349. It certainly is priced at a premium. |
| 1:12.7 | Yeah, $349. |
| 1:14.5 | And yeah, when they were framing it, |
| 1:16.9 | they basically said, yeah, if you have a smart speaker, |
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