For quite a long time, we weren’t sure what to expect from the new $99 HomePod mini. We didn’t know the design, size, or price.
A couple of those things changed shortly before the event. We first got a reliable steer that the price would be $99 – which immediately revealed that it was going to be something significantly less sophisticated than the existing product. It simply wouldn’t have been possible for Apple to hit that price-point with a slightly smaller version of the normal HomePod …
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