I find it interesting that even though apple showed us just an empty shell, some journalist told us that this is probably the best sounding speaker out there...

I find it interesting that even though apple showed us just an empty shell, some journalist told us that this is probably the best sounding speaker out there... RDF jokes aside, I think this will be released as a pure music player first and get smart assistant functions within a year. I don't think it will get an open API the same way google home has but apple will inatead partner with select companies.