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Best Buy has Apple HomePod mini Smart Speaker (Various Colors) on sale for $69.99. Shipping is free or choose store pickup where stock permits.

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Available Colors:Features:
  • Full-range driver and dual passive radiators for deep bass and crisp high frequencies
  • Custom acoustic waveguide for a 360⁰ sound field
  • Acoustically transparent fabric
  • Computational audio for real-time tuning
  • Four-microphone design for far-field Siri
  • Multiroom audio with AirPlay 2
  • Stereo pair capable
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Best Buy [bestbuy.com] has Apple HomePod mini (Various Colors) on sale for $69.99 as listed below. Shipping is Free.

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Personally, home assistant is my backend with Apple HomeKit as my interface for my family and guests. Once you get this invested in home automation, you'll learn that certain products work better for you than someone else. Side benefit to homepod's is the ability to detect a fire alarm going off in your house and sending an emergency alert to your phone, and sound quality is a good bit better on this vs an echo dot
Functionality wise kind of… design and hardware wise… most definitely not. Not really equal.

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dbc34
04-26-2024 at 11:53 AM.
04-26-2024 at 11:53 AM.
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Same product as an Echo Dot which is routinely on sale for like $30. No point in paying the Apple tax for this.
I would compare this more with an echo than an echo dot from a sound perspective. And the regular echos don't go on sale nearly as often as the dot. The echo MSRP is 99.
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caranddriver
04-26-2024 at 11:56 AM.
04-26-2024 at 11:56 AM.
This is a good price for brand new. I just bought two, a pre-owned & a unused-open box, space gray online for $55 and $64 shipped, respectively. New boxed ones go for higher than this online, and even the cheapest used ones are around $50.

I wouldn't get white unless you want the greatest chance of dirt showing. Some of the used white ones I saw online needed a good cleaning - can you even clean that mesh material?

I am trying a single one and I like it better than my Macbook speakers (of course), but missed the stereo sound feeling so bought a 2nd.

I really like the blue color.
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04-26-2024 at 11:58 AM.
04-26-2024 at 11:58 AM.
I'd like to transition from Alexa to Siri, I have a ton of smart devices, including Samsung SmartThings integrations. Can all that be transitioned to Apple HomePod?
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caranddriver
04-26-2024 at 11:58 AM.
04-26-2024 at 11:58 AM.
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It s very buggy. Many issues with stereo or apple tv integration.
Half baked product. They sell for $50 on fb marketplace for new ones.

It does have temp sensor though.
That's a good price for FB MarketPlace. I couldn't find many around me for less than $70 used.
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sr27
04-26-2024 at 12:21 PM.
04-26-2024 at 12:21 PM.
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Nope, and I wouldn't count on it coming, possibly ever. Spotify and Apple have been locked in a long running legal battle over app store fees and both sides are doing everything they can to spite the other.

At this point Apple should be taking Spotify's stance as an opportunity to make Apple Music better and claim market share, but Apple Music, imo, continues to be vastly inferior.

Someone has to challenge that greed. It won't be us peasants.
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04-26-2024 at 01:16 PM.
04-26-2024 at 01:16 PM.
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I've got friends that love these. I'm all in on the Apple ecosystem, but I just can't with the HomePod. Siri is just so useless and Spotify support is terrible.

That's partially because Spotify won't implement Airplay 2 just to spite Apple, but also because Apple slow rolled support for 3rd party music services in an attempt to bolster Apple Music

The HomePod/Mini ended up being a half baked product, with less than half baked voice recognition, and inadequate service support for the thing it's arguably best at: playing music. I wish it was better so much.
You know what's even hotter garbage than that? Spotify and Alexa in a multi-user household. Backwards hot garbage, unusable.

We've been running multiple HomePod Minis--and recently added a HomePod gen 2--in a multi-user household with Apple Music for a few years now, and overall it's a good experience. Alexa is more competent than Siri overall, but being able to Airplay and control the home music situation with the Music app on the phone is far slicker than Alexa with either Apple Music or Spotify--particularly in a multi-user household.
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04-26-2024 at 01:28 PM.
04-26-2024 at 01:28 PM.
Yellow color is OOS 🥲
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epiqu1n
04-26-2024 at 02:53 PM.
04-26-2024 at 02:53 PM.
Thanks OP! I've been looking at options for a ceiling-mounted speaker so this is great timing
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04-26-2024 at 02:56 PM.
04-26-2024 at 02:56 PM.
Great price, in for two more!
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branson
04-26-2024 at 05:57 PM.
04-26-2024 at 05:57 PM.
Quote from fightingmajor :
Wonder if a new one is on the way this year.
second half of 2024
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nicerollin
04-26-2024 at 08:57 PM.
04-26-2024 at 08:57 PM.
I'm another one. I love apple. The stock paid off my house and then some. But this is the worst apple product
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04-27-2024 at 12:49 AM.
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Nope, and I wouldn't count on it coming, possibly ever. Spotify and Apple have been locked in a long running legal battle over app store fees and both sides are doing everything they can to spite the other.

At this point Apple should be taking Spotify's stance as an opportunity to make Apple Music better and claim market share, but Apple Music, imo, continues to be vastly inferior.

I've tried all the music streaming apps and Apple has by far the best sound quality after Tidal. You're crazy if you think Spotify is better than Apple Music.
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04-27-2024 at 04:47 AM.
04-27-2024 at 04:47 AM.
If I could figure out how to use Siri to control my roombas, rather than interfere with them,, I'd get another. My iPhone has speakng automations for vacuuming various rooms in my home. I assumed I could be working in my kitchen and tell my roomba to clean under our dining room table via the HomePod mini. Nope. And I have to whisper the command into my iPhone to keep the HomePod from hearing me and telling me It doesn't know who Rosie is.
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04-27-2024 at 06:14 AM.
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I'd like to transition from Alexa to Siri, I have a ton of smart devices, including Samsung SmartThings integrations. Can all that be transitioned to Apple HomePod?

Not that I am aware of. Best way to integrate them to play nice with each other is through Home Assistant. Been running it for 4 years, won't go back to any single system.
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04-27-2024 at 11:36 AM.
04-27-2024 at 11:36 AM.
The included temperature and humidity sensor purchased separately would cost more than this sale price, so a great deal
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