Apple has cut the price of its HomePod smart speaker across the world without disclosing its reason for doing so.<\/p>\n
The HomePod price has dropped from $349 to $299 in the US, from \u00a3319 to \u00a3279 in the UK, and from AU$499 to AU$469 in Australia.<\/p>\n
Speculation is rife about Apple’s reasoning, with two possible answers gaining traction.<\/p>\n
Some believe that this price reduction could be preemptive ahead of a possible Apple HomePod 2 launch.<\/p>\n
However, given that there was no mention of a new HomePod at Apple’s March event, it seems more likely that a new HomePod will be released at the end of this year, or even in 2020.<\/p>\n
Another possibility is that Apple’s HomePod is struggling to compete<\/strong><\/a> with Amazon and Google’s smart speakers – and Apple hopes a price cut will encourage more people to purchase the device.<\/p>\n The HomePod has not been made available in South Africa by Apple.<\/p>\n Apple has cut the price of its HomePod smart speaker across the world, with their reasoning undisclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":214094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[605,43696,46495],"class_list":["post-301900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-apple","tag-apple-homepod","tag-smart-speakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301910,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301900\/revisions\/301910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: Awesome tech deals from Makro and Dion Wired<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"