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One of the most useful new features it comes with is the ability to wirelessly share the credentials of a WiFi network from one iOS device to another iOS device. You also have to unlock your iPhone or iPad before you can share your Wi-Fi connection, for security reasons. It has been reported that Apple will also offer a new one-handed keyboard now.

The speaker comes equipped with the A8 chip, the same processor found in the iPhone 6 from 2016. Unlike those other smart speakers, Apple is positioning the HomePod primarily as a way to listen to and discover new songs and artists.

HomePod is its name, and Siri smarts is what drives it. Competitor Google's home assistant achieved a 10% market share. Apple's HomePod is clearly going for a more powerful speaker, offering with a seven tweeter "beam-forming array", 4-inch forward facing subwoofer and an A8 chipset to learn the room it's housed in and adapt its output to fit the acoustics.

Pakistan was diligently implementing China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC ), a flagship of One Belt One Road initiative, he said, adding it would be beneficial for the entire SCO members. India's Ambassador to Kazakhstan Harsh Kumar Jain said there will two flights per week from Astana to New Delhi from July. It was the first meeting between the two leaders after India boycotted the high-profile Belt and Road Forum held in Beijing last month in which 29 world leaders took part.

On the other hand Amazon Echo and Google Home supports nearly all smart home integrations. However, Apple is confident that Siri is up to snuff and opted to focus their attention on the tech and audio of the pod itself giving Siri the backseat.

Apple lovers already tend to be "premium product buyers", and may not flinch at paying more for what they believe is a superior quality product, said Gartner analyst Brian Blau. Augmented reality, artificial intelligence, smart speakers, digital assistants, convolutional neural networks, machine learning and computer vision were all mentioned in some way, shape or form during the address.

Apple knows the iPad is the best available tablet by a country mile, so it's not surprise it's chose to stick with the design conventions which has made it so popular. Back at the April briefing, Phil Schiller was asked about whether Apple would consider adding a touch screen to the iMac. Apple Inc. upgraded most of its Mac computers on Monday, including a powerful new offering for professional users, showing renewed commitment to a product line that critics say it neglected amid ...

Named as the Apple HomePod , the speakers are a competition to the Sonos PLAY:3, Amazon Echo , and the Google Home speakers. Apple has presently only shown off its cylindrical, mesh-covered smart speaker on stage at WWDC , it is not quite ready to make its way into the home of Pro-Apple (most likely) consumers as of yet.

While many experts believe that Amazon's product is now stronger than Apple's (especially its activation command) and more competitively priced, it may not take long for Apple to add features and improve its Home Pod. Apple ( NASDAQ:AAPL ) unveiled its long-rumored entry into the smart assistant speaker market on Monday. Apple Vice-President Phil Schiller said the company's Siri team had tuned the assistant into a "musicologist" that learns the tastes of listeners and gets songs ...

Samsung Display's remaining capacity, which is expected to output another 80 million AMOLED panels in 2017, will be used to supply orders from Samsung Electronics and its other smartphone clients, but the panel maker is expected to keep some flexibility in case Apple places additional orders, the sources noted.