For a few days, many users are already enjoying Apple's HomePod, and as expected, the first complaints about this device have already begun to circulate, complaints that precisely they have nothing to do with sound quality but with the construction of it.
According to a large number of users, after placing the HomePod on a wooden surface and using the device for a few days, the device leaves some marks where it was, circular marks with the shape of the base of the device. To try to clarify this issue before it gets bigger, Apple has already ruled on it.
also, here's my subtle HomePod ring. please don't tell me to oil my wood pic.twitter.com/4gE452qtUB
- Federico Viticci (@viticci) February 14, 2018
Apple confirms the problem that the device shows if it is placed on wooden surfaces and urges us to use a varnish or special oil for wood to try to recover the original color of the wood. This answer without explanation about the reasons that these brands can cause, reminds us of Jobs' explanation with the coverage problems of the iPhone 4, stating that we got it wrong.
The guys from Cupertino have not offered any justification for the problem of brands that the HomePod generates, something to which we are unfortunately accustomed. According to some users and experts in wood treatments, this is due to the continuous vibration that the device suffers when it comes to playing music, which ends up eliminating the varnish that the surface on which it is placed.
Was there not another material to use in the base that will not end up deteriorating the surface on which it is placed? It seems incredible that if we want to avoid that a speaker of almost 400 euros ends up spoiling our furniture we have to use a mat that prevents vibrations from spoiling it, as long as we plan to place it in a wooden piece of furniture.
That is to cut a piece of felt paper to the shape of the base and stick it underneath and point out scratches. That we want it all chewed up.
my grandmother made some lovely crochet rugs to avoid this. Too bad the homepod and my grandmother did not coincide in the same century ... it would have been lined. And if he had made them in the shape of a little apple, he could have sold them for 100 euros to one of those apple fan chalao ...
I once had the ipod HIFI, spectacular speakers that sounded fantastic. they all had the bottom surface lined with a rubber that prevented them from moving. It seems to me that they have forgotten how to design useful and practical things.
They are not scratches, the base of the HomePod is made of silicone. It seems that it is more of a problem with certain oils or varnishes that they use with some woods and that do not go well with silicone.
Although it is still crappy that your brand new HomePod "stains" the furniture, it is clear that the problem is now much lighter than it seemed at first.
It was something very heavy that your speaker sanded / discolored the furniture where you placed it.