The iOS user is a regular user of this type of consumer electronics at the same time avant-garde and consumerist without more. This is how Apple has tried to attract an important sector of its audience through the HomePod, its speaker with a virtual assistant system that seems to take too long and loses ground to rivals.
An indication of how much a product is sold today is the number of downloads that its management applications get (and it is that there are hardly any products that lack them). This is how Alexa is at the top of the download top in the iOS App Store thanks to the sales of Echo products.
Christmas Day is where the most sales of consumer electronics products occur in the United States of America, or at least one of the most powerful. However, hand in hand with the application that Google has provided for the management of Google Home, it has been ranked number one in downloads of free applications in a significant number of regions. This is undoubtedly an important marker of how iOS users are being attracted to these types of products and the reception that a HomePod could have. Pretty bad move by Apple to allow competitors to sell all of their products over Christmas, as a well-established user may not require device replacement.
Be that as it may, a new era of virtual assistants is sinning, many years after its release, an example was the official arrival of Siri in 2011. We do not yet know if the impact of these devices that seek to make our home more "intelligent" will be total or will remain a niche product for a certain number of users. Be that as it may, taking into account the investment in hardware, it is clear that companies find a significant economic attraction in this type of device.
