alt Hacker NewsI am deeply upset every time the HomePod in another room decides to attempt to answer my query instead of the phone that’s in my hands, which then has to ask who is speaking, and has a 50:50 chance of ultimately failing to do the task.
With how magical handoff / continuity / whatever it’s called is, it is baffling to me why Apple allows the HomePod to so aggressively take over requests when it sucks so, so much at it.
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Google isn't much better. I have them all over the house. Ask a question to the living room speaker, skips that, skips the one in the kitchen, answers from the one in the bathroom upstairs or one in the basement. Then you get a notification later asking "was this the right device?" which is doubly infuriating since responding to that never actually improves anything.
Noticed this too. Siri on iPhone is almost useful now, but HomePods steals the show and says "I found some results on the web, do you wanna check them on your iPhone?"
It's somewhat obvious they want to sell the updated model, perhaps the new home device thats coming out next week.