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This week Apple finally <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-homepod/apple-launches-homepod-voice-speaker-takes-on-google-amazon-idUSKBN1FC1SX" target="_blank">announced that they would be selling their HomePod</a>, a new smart speaker to compete with <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Echo-And-Alexa-Devices/b?ie=UTF8&node=9818047011" target="_blank">Amazon’s Echo</a> or <a href="https://store.google.com/?srp=/product/google_home" target="_blank">Google Home</a>, from February 9. This comes with some delay from the original expectation for end of 2017, as it was <a href="https://medium.com/@jorge.serna/wwdc-2017-social-comms-5-homepod-and-social-communications-475839fdf457" target="_blank">originally announced on the WWDC last year</a>.