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06-07-2017, 11:00 AM
Is Apple's HomePod a blatant ripoff of this startup's smart speaker?
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Apple's newly-an**unced HomePod speaker (http://mashable.com/2017/06/05/apple-siri-speaker/) looked familiar, but we couldn't quite put a finger on it.
Until this morning, when an email from Whyd CEO Gilles Poupardin came through, with a single sentence: "Hey Raymond - looks like you nailed it .." The email came along with a screenshot of an article we published last year—about Whyd's voice-controlled speaker, that HomePod bears a striking resemblance to.*
SEE ALSO: Apple HomePod first listen: This is what a $349 speaker sounds like (http://mashable.com/2017/06/05/apple-homepod-hands-on-sound/)
And the headline? "This voice-controlled speaker looks like something Apple would design (http://mashable.com/2016/08/22/whyd-voice-controlled-speaker/)." 'Might as well have been a prophecy. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/06/apple-homepod-copy-whyd-speaker/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Apple's newly-an**unced HomePod speaker (http://mashable.com/2017/06/05/apple-siri-speaker/) looked familiar, but we couldn't quite put a finger on it.
Until this morning, when an email from Whyd CEO Gilles Poupardin came through, with a single sentence: "Hey Raymond - looks like you nailed it .." The email came along with a screenshot of an article we published last year—about Whyd's voice-controlled speaker, that HomePod bears a striking resemblance to.*
SEE ALSO: Apple HomePod first listen: This is what a $349 speaker sounds like (http://mashable.com/2017/06/05/apple-homepod-hands-on-sound/)
And the headline? "This voice-controlled speaker looks like something Apple would design (http://mashable.com/2016/08/22/whyd-voice-controlled-speaker/)." 'Might as well have been a prophecy. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/06/apple-homepod-copy-whyd-speaker/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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