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Episode 163: Interview with Matt Hines of iZotope, HomePod news

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Ipad, Apple Tv, Mac, Imac, Apple Watch, Ios, Macbook, Mac Pro, Iphone, Tech News, Macos, Technology, News, Apple

4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2018

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Victor and Neil talk about HomePod, smart speakers, and HomeKit. Victor interviews Matt Hines of iZotope to ask a little more about what might be going on with HomePod internally.Support AppleInsider Podcast

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Apple Insider Podcast.

0:10.0

Welcome to episode

0:11.0

157 of the Apple Insider Podcast. I'm your host Victor Marks and joining me is Mike Wirthley.

0:16.4

Wait a minute, is it Mike?

0:18.4

Oh my gosh, it's Neil. Neil's on the other end. How's it going?

0:23.7

Welcome back. How's things? You have been missed. Have I? A few of you

0:30.1

tweeted at me and people were a little

0:33.4

concerned they thought I was gone now I'm still here but thank you for this

0:36.2

concern it's not that easy to get rid of you is it no not not yet not yet

0:40.3

well I am glad you're back.

0:43.4

Thank you.

0:44.4

I want to dive right in and talk about Home Pod.

0:49.2

And I want to do that because as you and I both know and our listeners probably should know that pre-orders are

0:56.0

opening up. It's going to start shipping.

0:58.0

Yeah, and when you are listening to this pre-orders will have already begun.

1:02.4

Yes. So by the time you're

1:06.1

listening to this you will have already pre-ordered your 350-dollar fantastic

1:09.9

Home Pot speaker and and will be waiting it eerily.

1:13.3

So there are a lot of questions out there still.

1:16.6

And the questions are things like, you know, does this make sense in a market with Amazon

1:21.6

Alexa and Google Home to come in at a $350 price point or Sonus

1:25.8

1 for that matter.

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