Siri? HomePods aren’t sold for a loss (Apple doesn’t do that, plus price makes it seem even less likely). Macs/iPhones/iPads/etc also pay for its development.

Siri? HomePods aren’t sold for a loss (Apple doesn’t do that, plus price makes it seem even less likely). Macs/iPhones/iPads/etc also pay for its development. But it doesn’t exist to make money like Alexa (why would I buy random stuff with it?). It exists to make Apple devices more sticky. And it works well for what I use it for. The Alexa business model never makes sense to me, and that’s even if the devices were never sold at a loss, which they frequently were.