<story><title>HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n</title><url>https://yalujailbreak.net/homepod-checkra1n-jailbreak/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>semi-extrinsic</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s the trouble with buying any of the competition, if you want those features?&lt;p&gt;You can get a Klipsch R51 PM for quite a bit less than the price of two HomePods. Better audio, Bluetooth, aux, optical, USB, even phono pre-amp in case you have a turntable.</text></item><item><author>dejawu</author><text>I hope this leads to some way besides Airplay to play arbitrary audio with no delay. If Apple had just included support for Bluetooth audio (or God forbid, an aux jack) I would&amp;#x27;ve bought two full-sized Homepods to use as computer speakers two months ago.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rrrrrrrrrrrryan</author><text>I think they&amp;#x27;re (one of?) the only smart speakers on the market to automatically calibrate themselves to the room. I&amp;#x27;m sure it&amp;#x27;s just some EQ and maybe a bit of phase adjustment, but the speaker doing it automatically for you whenever you reposition it is a nontrivial feature that makes the audio sound noticably better than much of the competition.</text></comment>
<story><title>HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n</title><url>https://yalujailbreak.net/homepod-checkra1n-jailbreak/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>semi-extrinsic</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s the trouble with buying any of the competition, if you want those features?&lt;p&gt;You can get a Klipsch R51 PM for quite a bit less than the price of two HomePods. Better audio, Bluetooth, aux, optical, USB, even phono pre-amp in case you have a turntable.</text></item><item><author>dejawu</author><text>I hope this leads to some way besides Airplay to play arbitrary audio with no delay. If Apple had just included support for Bluetooth audio (or God forbid, an aux jack) I would&amp;#x27;ve bought two full-sized Homepods to use as computer speakers two months ago.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tambourine_man</author><text>They do sound incredible. Though I don’t think I’ll ever own a voice assistant.</text></comment>