HomePod to Run Apps Through iPhone/iPad →

Michael Tsai quotes Mark Gurman who says:

Voice apps don’t run on the HomePod, HomePod serves as a speaker to the iPhone. Only works with SiriKit for messaging, notes, and list apps.

So, no apps like Uber/Lyft (would have been perfect for the HomePod), no new Siri functionality for apps like Spotify (obvious-ish).

I’ll admit, I don’t see the expansive vision or even much of the current appeal some folks seem to have for so-called smart speakers.1

So can anyone explain why “apps like Uber/Lyft (would have been perfect for the HomePod)?”

The percent of times a person will want to hail a cab without their phone on or at least near their person as they are readying to walk out the door is approximately zero?

  1. Past “play this song” or “what’s the weather” or maybe hands-free recipes in the kitchen, what’s the point? ↩

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