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Right I have two new Home Pod questions. Has it given you rings and have they gone away?

And Gagget ran a piece yesterday that had the site's wire cutter and pocketlent finding rings where once their home pods had been.

Like if you sit this engineering marvel on, say, furniture, you may end up with marks.

Now let's be clear this is only true for wooden furniture so nothing common

as wire cutter pointed out says N-Gadget, the smart speaker is fine to place on other materials like glass,

granite counters, wood-sealed in polyurethane, and even venerable Ikea particle board. So resting your home pod on one of those

is a good idea. Or you can just buy another modern smart speaker that doesn't threaten to scuff up

furniture you spent money on. That was still end gadget. What's

Apple's response? Well, I wouldn't be satisfied with the answer if I had a home pod.

First, a piece from 9 to 5 max says Apple has updated a home pod support article.

According to that, it's not unusual for any speaker with a vibration-dampening silicone base to leave mild

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