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An update to thoughts on the HomePod mini

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I posted about this a while back and since then I have found a couple of additional uses that are vaguely helpful. Or at least they are vaguely helpful for me.

Alarms

I use a lot of alarms. A lot of things to remind of what I need to. Being able to have them on multiple devices might be useful. So far I’m not entirely how useful this might be, but I’ll try it out.

Timers

This is also a potentially useful feature, but again I’ll have to spend more time seeing just how useful it might be.

Like so many bits of technology that I have, I struggle to make them actually useful to me. These two features of the HomePod Mini might be useful, or at least it is a possibility, and one that I’ll try. I’d actually like the HomePod to do more, but so far I haven’t found any other uses.

Of course I do make use of it as a speaker, which is of course its primary purpose. In terms of that it works just fine.

A few initial thoughts about the HomePod Mini

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I like technology, although in recent years my relationship with technology has changed in a lot of ways. For a start a rarely buy new technology unless I have a real reason for it and a real use for it. In fact I have sold off a lot of technology. Mainly music technology, but a lot of other stuff too.

However, at times I end up with a piece of technology that I really don’t know what to do with. The HomePod Mini is one such piece of technology. Don’t get me wrong. It is a nice thing in itself. It works well. It does what it’s supposed to do. I Just wish it would do some more.

I’ve had speakers before. I had an amazon echo and really had no use for that at all. The HomePod is better, but aside from using it as a speaker it does very little for me. Perhaps I just need to try harder.