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The HomePod is $349. Amazon frequently has the Echo and Echo Dot on sale. For the same price as the HomePod you can buy two full sized Echos and a Dot. For me,
by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
The HomePod is $349. Amazon frequently has the Echo and Echo Dot on sale. For the same price as the HomePod you can buy two full sized Echos and a Dot. For me, Alexa has been exponentially more reliable than Siri. I do not understand this pricing at all.
- Cookingboy 9y agoHave you looked into the price of a Sonos speaker? Good speakers cost money, frequently a lot more than $500. This for people who care about sound quality.
- mcgrath_sh 9y agoI am looking at this from more of the Home Assistant route than the Sonos route. I can see a higher price if that is the case. As a counter to that, though, why not just buy a good speaker and plug in an Echo Dot? To be fair, I don't really listen to music and tend to listen to Podcasts or Audiobooks 99% of the time. I also have below average hearing / am tone deaf, so speaker quality is a very binary thing for me (can I understand the words and is it loud enough?). For my use case, I think the Echo speaker is wonderful.