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Welcome to the Apple Insider Podcast.

I'm your host Victor and joining me is Neil Hughes editor-in-chief of

Apple insider.com Victor how are you? hopped up on caffeine how are you? I don't have

any caffeine in me just just Agua but I'm good. Agua, the elixir of life that.

Welcome to the Apple Insider Podcast.

Thank you so much for joining me for this.

Absolutely. We're coming up on American Thanksgiving.

We are.

And I say American because it's separate from Canadian Thanksgiving which is on a different

day and there are all kinds of other people who are thankful on other days but the point overriding is that we have a lot to be thankful for, don't we?

We absolutely do, yeah.

However, we also have news to discuss.

We do.

Tell me why here we are at the end of 2017 and I don't have a shiny fancy music speaker from Apple yet.

Yeah, well I mean I want a speaker, I want a speaker when I put it in a room, it knows

its location in the room and it accuses itself for delay and reflections and the shape and size of the the room why can't I have that?

That's a good question we don't really know.

The Home Pod is a very strange product and for those listening who may not have kept up on the news this week

Apple announced late last Friday in the week that they would not be shipping the home pod in 2018 as

originally promised because they need more time to get it done. Yeah this is

just a embarrassing bad situation for Apple all around. I mean, whatever, we'll live without our speaker for a few more months, but Apple is a company that takes pride in its ability to announce products and they don't

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