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Apple's first foray into smart speakers is officially here.
The HomePod, which costs $350, became widely available last Friday. It offers high-end audio combined with Apple's smart assistant, Siri, all packed inside a cylindrical body.
In fact, it bears a quite a few similarities to another smart speaker on the market: the $100 Amazon Echo.
The Echo has been hugely popular with consumers over the past few years. Amazon doesn't disclose device sales, but it pegged holiday sales of Alexa-enabled devices in the "tens of millions."
And the number of people buying Echo devices has skyrocketed over the past year: Amazon shipped 5 million devices in the third quarter of 2017, compared with 900,000 during the same period the year before, according to data from Strategy Analytics.
So with all the popularity of the Echo — which is now in its second generation — why should you consider Apple's HomePod? There are two main reasons.
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