I'm not sure why everyone thinks that? I have a sound bar for my TV -- I still need speakers elsewhere, and I wouldn't want my room speakers to be bound to my T

I'm not sure why everyone thinks that? I have a sound bar for my TV -- I still need speakers elsewhere, and I wouldn't want my room speakers to be bound to my TV or necessarily the overhead of having to manage pairings of speakers. HomePod should fit in my bedroom quite nicely, so I'm looking forward to it. Everyone saying the thing is doomed, or Siri is useless… I dunno, maybe I don't use Alexa to the fullest but I pretty much ask Alexa the weather and to turn my lights on and off and I find Apple Music better than Amazon Music. It will also integrate with my notes/reminders, timers and calls seamlessly. I'm sure Alexa integrates with all of this at some level, but I'm willing to bet that for people into Apple's ecosystem Siri (despite lacking the thousands of questionably useful skills) will work pretty well for a lot of people. Siri has a lot of room to improve, but I don't think that HomePod is somehow useless because it doesn't have my roommate's Alexa fart skill. The main thing will be getting support for third party entitlements over time -- they can't let that languish forever, but I think for the moment they've got more breathing room than people think. I also trust Siri a lot more than I trust Alexa/Google with listening all the time or being used by others in the house given the nature of business models.