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  #2407760 27-Jan-2020 20:29
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They will want to do it perfectly, with all the regionalizations - or is that regionalisation? and the market is just too small to bother. People here get all pissy when place names are pronounced a different way to how they prefer on GPS stuff so whatever they do will take a long time, sell stuff all of them since NZ is a low income country and probably not give as much return as they decide they need.





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  #2407791 27-Jan-2020 21:22
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Market is too small and the product too unpopular in large markets for them to bother selling them here at a guess.






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HomePod is 1.2billion dollar Revenue stream for Apple. For one niche product. 
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All about the customisation's (As many have said) - Think about how miserable Apple Maps and siri are at finding POI - I was trying to drive to a relatively major sports park in North Canterbury and I tried a million different ways with "Navigate to" on siri / Apple maps and it found me places in other countries, other citys etc. Launched Google maps and used its voice search and I was on my way in ONE go (Must lookup if you can launch and search Google maps with Siri - I did setup a shortcut some time back that was ok but I believe Siri is more open to developers since IOS 13)

 

If there are no decent POI then its going to be very hit and miss looking for restaurants etc, we won't be able to lookup local sporting events, concerts etc so it'll be weather and playing music.

 

For me that's enough and I fully understand the limitations - I want a good quality speaker that recognises my playlists etc in Apple Music and can become my Home Bub for Homekit so as soon as I find a justification to get it by the W.A.F (Wife appreciation factor) I'll just get one parallel imported. I currently have an Echo Dot hooked up to my receiver for Apple music but I cannot get it to recognise my Playlists but at least I can select songs and artists but it can be a bit frustrating picking a song at a time - If anyone has a good tip on how to get playlists working I'd be stokers - I've searched and searched online and none of it worked, I'm wondering if its because our Apple Music subscription is a Family sharing account?? Maybe someone else in the family's Playlists will work although I'm the master account.

 

If Apple start selling Homepods in stores and users complain and take them back under the consumer guarantee act because they couldn't ask siri things like they'd seen their favourite Youtuber do it'll be a nightmare.





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  #2440801 18-Mar-2020 16:54
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mobiusnz:

(Must lookup if you can launch and search Google maps with Siri - I did setup a shortcut some time back that was ok but I believe Siri is more open to developers since IOS 13)


If Apple start selling Homepods in stores and users complain and take them back under the consumer guarantee act because they couldn't ask siri things like they'd seen their favourite Youtuber do it'll be a nightmare.


A) “hey Siri, navigate to blah blah blah using google maps”
B) disclaimers (or “feature availability” as Apple calls it), like the fact that Apple Watch doesn’t to EKG in NZ. E.g. this page lists a stack of things that aren’t available in all sorts of countries: https://www.apple.com/nz/watchos/feature-availability/

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sir1963:

 

GSManiac:

 

I don’t get why this product has such a slow roll out. It’s been two years and still only available in a small amount of countries. There’s no reason why this can’t be made available in Nz. I have one that I picked up in Sydney and have had absolutely no issues with it. 

 

 

 

 

Not an important market, and probably low profit margin.

 

 

All the more that people parallel import (by what ever means) the smaller the market becomes and the less likely it will ever be officially supported.





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