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make phone calls useful only to one person. You can
change the Apple ID associated with the HomePod,
but this isn’t something you can do on the fly: you
can’t ask Siri to “switch to Miriam’s account”.
You can share to-do lists and calendars, though,
but only one person can use the HomePod to check
what the traffic is like to “work”. Everyone else will
have to specify the location when asking, so there are
workarounds for some things.
Apple is late to the smart speaker game, so rivals
already have a range of devices, including those with
screens, such as Amazon’s Echo Spot. It’s possible
Apple will broaden the range of HomePods in a similar
way to offer both cheaper, smaller devices as well as
a potential Echo Show equivalent where it could take
advantage of its FaceTime video calling service.
Later in 2018, you’ll be able to use a pair of
HomePods to create stereo sound. Alternatively,
you’ll be able to place them in multiple rooms around
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