84 Macworld • August 2019
FEATURE
Apple’s smart speaker is much more impressive than it was at
launch. Leif Johnson reports
T
he HomePod is enjoying a resurgence now
that Apple has cut the price by £40, and I
suspect a lot of you are wondering what you
can do with Apple’s essentially buttonless smart
speaker. Let’s get this out of the way: no, it still
doesn’t do as many things as your average Alexa-