Pogue: Google Home Max “sounds like cardboard” compared with HomePod
Former New York Times technology columnist David Pogue has spent some hands-on time with Apple’s HomePod and came away impressed with sound quality. In his glowing HomePod review on Yahoo (viaThe Loop’s Dave Mark), hewrotethat Apple set up a devastatingly effective demo for cherry-picked journalists by pitting the $349 HomePod against Google’s $400 Home Max speaker, the $200 Sonos One and Amazon’s $100 Echo. All devices were volume-matched and rigged to an A/B/C/D switch, allowing a single song to hop from one speaker to the other with a flick of the switch....