There was a time when we thought that the Apple HomePod had taken a permanent dirt nap.
Apple discontinued the original HomePod (released in early 2018) despite its popularity and inescapable quality, yet two years after its supposed death, the Californian company decided to surprise and delight us all with the unveiling of the long-awaited sequel.
The Apple HomePod 2 was glorious, and it made us hungry for more.
More hasn’t arrived, though. We've gone through another Apple September launch event which gave us the AirPods 4, the iPhone 16 and the iPhone 16 Pro, yet not a hint of any new HomePods.
The second-gen HomePod currently sits alongside the even older HomePod Mini, and while they’re both five-star products that still slot well into the iOS ecosystem, it seems utterly strange that Apple has been so reluctant to give us a sequel.
Perhaps there’s more money in the wireless earbuds market, an arena in which Apple are so unbelievably dominant,
or perhaps the decision-makers at the top don’t feel that a new release is worth the trouble when the current models are still performing well.
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