{"id":166547,"date":"2019-10-07T19:44:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T11:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/?p=614006"},"modified":"2019-10-07T19:44:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T11:44:36","slug":"comment-apple-would-sell-a-lot-more-homepods-if-it-followed-sonos-lead-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/07\/comment-apple-would-sell-a-lot-more-homepods-if-it-followed-sonos-lead-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment: Apple would sell a lot more HomePods if it followed Sonos\u2019 lead here"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/10\/sell-more-HomePods.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Apple has so far made one move designed to help it sell more <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/homepod\/\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HomePods<\/a>: a price drop <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/04\/04\/apple-homepod-price-cut\/\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">from $350 to $300<\/a> back in the spring. Indications are that <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/08\/08\/apple-homepod-market-share\/\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this didn&#8217;t really help<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other efforts seem &#8230; limited. Click the Search button <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on Apple&#8217;s website<\/a> and AirPods \u2013 and even iPod \u2013 come up as Quick Links; HomePod doesn&#8217;t. Even on the Music page, HomePod gets second billing after Apple Music.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the challenge for Apple is that decent-quality audio is one of those product categories that has to be experienced before you appreciate the value. Sonos, which faces the same problem, appears to be testing a possible solution: one I suspect will prove successful &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/10\/07\/sell-more-homepods\/#more-614006\" class=\"more-link\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/10\/07\/sell-more-homepods\/\">Comment: Apple would sell a lot more HomePods if it followed Sonos&#8217; lead here<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/\">9to5Mac<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/10\/sell-more-HomePods.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1500\"><\/div>\n<p>Apple has so far made one move designed to help it sell more <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/homepod\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HomePods<\/a>: a price drop <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/04\/04\/apple-homepod-price-cut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">from $350 to $300<\/a> back in the spring. Indications are that <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/08\/08\/apple-homepod-market-share\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this didn&rsquo;t really help<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other efforts seem &hellip; limited. Click the Search button <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on Apple&rsquo;s website<\/a> and AirPods &ndash; and even iPod &ndash; come up as Quick Links; HomePod doesn&rsquo;t. Even on the Music page, HomePod gets second billing after Apple Music.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the challenge for Apple is that decent-quality audio is one of those product categories that has to be experienced before you appreciate the value. Sonos, which faces the same problem, appears to be testing a possible solution: one I suspect will prove successful &hellip;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/10\/07\/sell-more-homepods\/#more-614006\">more&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/10\/07\/sell-more-homepods\/\">Comment: Apple would sell a lot more HomePods if it followed Sonos&rsquo; lead here<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/\">9to5Mac<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/07\/comment-apple-would-sell-a-lot-more-homepods-if-it-followed-sonos-lead-here\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2048,452,2,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,403,412,411,395,405,404],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-Hkf","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166551,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166547\/revisions\/166551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}