{"id":58918,"date":"2018-02-15T10:38:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T10:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=58918"},"modified":"2018-02-15T10:38:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T10:38:49","slug":"uh-oh-apples-homepod-can-stain-some-wood-furniture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/uh-oh-apples-homepod-can-stain-some-wood-furniture.html","title":{"rendered":"Uh oh! Apple&#8217;s HomePod can stain some wood furniture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Uh oh! Apple&#8217;s HomePod can stain some wood furniture<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">At least the sound isn\u2019t wooden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The HomePod in fact sounds great. At the same time, however, Apple\u2019s $349 smart speaker has been tarnished for having a virtual voice-driven assistant Siri, that isn\u2019t as smart or useful as Alexa on Amazon Echo speakers or the Google Assistant on Google Home speakers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">And now there\u2019s a very different kind of stain being directed at HomePod: it can leave a white ring on some wood furniture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Apple has acknowledged the issue, which was first spotted by reviewers at Wirecutter and the gadget site Pocket-Lint, and by some users on Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">John Birchman tweeted, \u201cWait, so Apple&#8217;s Home Pod is leaving marks on wood surfaces treated with oil or wax? Home Pod Coasters to hit the market in 3, 2, 1\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">In an updated support page for the speaker on its website, Apple indicated that it \u201cis not unusual for any speaker with a vibration-dampening silicone base to leave mild marks when placed on some wooden surfaces,&#8221; adding that such \u201cmarks can be caused by oils diffusing between the silicone base and the table surface, and will often go away after several days when the speaker is removed from the wooden surface.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Should the blemish remain, Apple suggests that you gently wipe the surface with a soft damp or dry cloth, or to \u201cclean the surface with the furniture manufacturer&#8217;s recommended cleaning process.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">But ff all else fans, another suggestion is not likely to make Apple any friends: \u201cplacing your HomePod on a different surface.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/talkingtech\/2018\/02\/14\/uh-oh-apples-homepod-can-stain-some-wood-furniture\/338928002\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/uh-oh-apples-homepod-can-stain-some-wood-furniture.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uh oh! Apple&#8217;s HomePod can stain some wood furniture At least the sound isn\u2019t wooden. The HomePod in fact sounds great. At the same time, however, Apple\u2019s $349 smart speaker has been tarnished for having a virtual voice-driven assistant Siri, that isn\u2019t as smart or useful as Alexa on Amazon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":58919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[692,117647,117648,120467],"class_list":["post-58918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-latest-technology-news","tag-latest-technology-news-daily","tag-technology-news-world","tag-uh-oh-apples-homepod-can-stain-some-wood-furniture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}