The solution to the white ring left by the HomePod is very simple, according to some industrial engineers

Last week we echoed a news more related to the HomePod, although this time it was not as good as its owners would have wanted, and that is that this "smart" speaker from Apple leaves white frames on wooden surfaces that have been treated with oils or waxes, a brand that costs a lot to eliminate and can only be disguised.

To try to offer a solution to this problem, the company added a new section entitled "Where to place the HomePod" detailing how the interaction between the silicone of the base and a wooden surface may leave a white ring due to vibrations from the HomePod during use.

The Business Insider publication has reached out to industrial designers. These industrial designers believe that the problem it shouldn't be too hard to fix, As the Cupertino-based company has a rethinking of its manufacturing process to try to find a problem with the silicone base, although it could take two to six weeks to delay and would not be very expensive, according to Gregor Berkowitz, see of consumer electronics development.

Another industrial designer at Y Studios, César Viramontes, says that the subject of rings should not be given too much importance as sooner rather than later users will forget this little problem by staying in an anecdote. According to Cesar, a solution could be to replace the silicone part with the same material used in the sports bands of the Apple Watch.What is clear is that Apple does not plan to do anything about it, at least until the next generation and If the problem of the white rings is accentuated, they could give a protector for the wood, as they did when they gave a case for the iPhone 4, because according to Steve Jobs, the problem of coverage was due to the fact that we used the wrong phone .