Farhad’s Week in Tech: Netflix Is a Monster, and Apple’s HomePod Arrives Soon
- 6 years ago
Farhad’s Week in Tech: Netflix Is a Monster, and Apple’s HomePod Arrives Soon
Last summer, Apple unveiled a smart speaker inspired by Amazon’s Echo and Google’s Home, because it is apparently the rule in the tech industry
that if one big company does something, every other company has to do it, too.
Now that there’s just so much stuff on Netflix — so many comedies, so many dramas, so many dumb movies, so many smart
movies — it has become not just another premium cable channel but something like a replacement for TV itself.
It was a crucial miss — the Echo seems to have had a gangbusters holiday, with Amazon
expanding its head start in the category by probably tens of millions of devices.
A new Apple device is usually a Big Deal event, one of those campaigns that Apple rolls out with the precision of a military conquest.
But nobody heard anything more about the HomePod until late November, when Apple announced
that the timing had slipped and that HomePod wouldn’t come until after the holidays.
Last summer, Apple unveiled a smart speaker inspired by Amazon’s Echo and Google’s Home, because it is apparently the rule in the tech industry
that if one big company does something, every other company has to do it, too.
Now that there’s just so much stuff on Netflix — so many comedies, so many dramas, so many dumb movies, so many smart
movies — it has become not just another premium cable channel but something like a replacement for TV itself.
It was a crucial miss — the Echo seems to have had a gangbusters holiday, with Amazon
expanding its head start in the category by probably tens of millions of devices.
A new Apple device is usually a Big Deal event, one of those campaigns that Apple rolls out with the precision of a military conquest.
But nobody heard anything more about the HomePod until late November, when Apple announced
that the timing had slipped and that HomePod wouldn’t come until after the holidays.