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Against all Pods

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DAY 01

The second-gen HomePod is available in white as before, but now the darker version is ‘midnight’, not ‘charcoal’. We’ve been sent both for this review, since you can pair them up in stereo. As I unbox them I notice that they look very similar to the original HomePod, which Apple apparently discontinued because it didn’t sell many.

So the question is, what makes this HomePod better?

Apple’s forays into home audio have long had patchy results. The 2006 iPod Hi-Fi was a

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