Apple HomePod review: The best-sounding smart speaker yet

Apple's HomePod comes with a long list of fine print. If you own an iOS device, subscribe to Apple Music, can live with Siri's limited capabilities, care about music quality, and you're OK with dropping $350 on a smart speaker, you'll love HomePod. It's phenomenal.

But if you don't meet these exact requirements (i.e. you use Android or prefer Spotify), you should stop reading right now because HomePod's shortcomings will only frustrate you.

By all accounts, HomePod is late to the smart speaker game. Amazon pioneered the product category in 2014 with the Alexa-powered Echo and Google launched its own version, the Assistant-equipped Home, in 2016 Read more...