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Sonos One vs. HomePod: Which should you buy?

Here at iMore, we love music, and we're always looking for the best hardware to play it, from earbuds to home sound systems.

Sonos One

Tiny Power

$199 at Amazon

Pros

• Excellent sound
• Less expensive than the HomePod
• Supports Alexa for music playback and home automation
• AirPlay 2 support
• Can stereo pair with another Sonos One

Cons

• Sound only plays in one direction
• Sound doesn't fill a room like HomePod
• Alexa only available in a handful of regions

While it doesn't sound quite as good as the HomePod and doesn't fill a room in the same way, the Sonos One is an excellent speaker, and great in a wireless stereo pair. It's cheaper than the HomePod by $150 and has Alexa integration built in, even if it's only available in a handful of countries. Thanks to AirPlay 2, the Sonos One is also compatible with Siri through your iPhone or iPad and can play audio as part of a whole-home sound system with other AirPlay 2 speakers.

Apple HomePod

Superior sound

$349 at Apple

Pros

• Superb, massive sound
• AirPlay 2
• Can stereo pair to another HomePod
• Siri built-in
• Great for Apple Music subscribers
• Works great with HomeKit

Cons

• More expensive than the Sonos One
• Siri still has its struggles
• Not natively integrated with music services other than Apple Music

Apple set out to create a great speaker with the HomePod, and that's exactly what they did, with this small speaker producing great sound far above its weight class. An AirPlay 2 speaker, HomePod can stereo pair with another HomePod for even better sound from both. Having Siri built in means you can play music using just your voice like you can with the Sonos One, but native music support is limited to Apple Music, at least for now. It's main drawbacks are its price compared to the Sonos One, issues that continue to plague Siri, and limited native integrations.

If you're subscribed to Apple Music and are looking for a speaker with built-in voice assistant support for it, get a HomePod, you'll love it. But if you're looking for something that can work with most music services (including Apple Music), features a versatile voice assistant, and still sounds great, the Sonos One is for you.

The big differences

Pictured: Sonos One

Between the Sonos One and the HomePod, the biggest factors for most people are sound quality and price. There are virtual assistant capabilities to consider, but we'll focus on sound quality and price primarily as both products seem to be designed as speakers first, and assistants-in-cans second.

Looking at sound quality alone, I'd have to pick the HomePod. Computational audio does a lot of excellent work to get that tiny speaker to fill a room, and the sound the HomePod produces is outstanding. Yes, only Apple Music support is built in right now, but with AirPlay 2, that's not as big of a hurdle as it would have been even a year ago.

But then there's the other major factor: price. For the sound quality you get, it's hard to beat the Sonos One at that price. At $199, it's $150 cheaper than the HomePod. Does the HomePod sound $150 better? That depends on the person. As someone who owns a HomePod, it sounds wonderful. While the Sonos One doesn't sound quite as good, but it still sounds great, and it's probably good enough for most people.

	Sonos One	Apple HomePod
Size	4.8" x 4.8" x 6.4"	5.6" x 5.6" x 6.8"
Weight	65oz	88oz
Voice control	Yes	Yes
Virtual Assistant	Alexa	Siri
Multiroom audio	Yes (Sonos, AirPlay 2)	Yes (AirPlay 2)
Bluetooth	No	Yes (not for music playback)
Smart home control	Yes	Yes (HomeKit)
Line out	No	No

Pictured: HomePod speaker

If we look at the virtual assistants packed into these speakers — Alexa for Sonos One and Siri for HomePod — some important differences manifest themselves. Both assistants have similar base capabilities, answering questions about the weather, setting timers, letting you set reminders and calendar events, and more. Both also allow you to control various smart home devices with your voice. However, Alexa has thousands of skills available from developers all over the world, turning it into an assistant capable of so much more than Siri on the HomePod. Because though Siri for iPhone and iPad has seen its abilities expand exponentially with the launch of Shortcuts, those Shortcuts don't run natively on Siri on the HomePod, but instead, run on your iPhone if you trigger them using your HomePod.

While Siri is a great Apple Music assistant, music is where another advantage of Sonos One comes to light. In addition to Amazon Music, you can set up other music services with Alexa, including Spotify, Tidal, and Deezer (Apple Music also recently came to Alexa, but it's restricted to Echo devices for now). So in addition to whatever streaming service you already have linked to Sonos, you can command others using Alexa. This is something that Siri can't do just yet. Hopefully, Apple will add this capability one day, but for right now, because of this limitation, the Sonos One is the best pick for use with most music services.

The bottom line is this: the HomePod is great for Apple Music subscribers, and I highly recommend it. It's the better-sounding of the two speakers. That being said, most people should get the Sonos One right now. It has the more capable assistant and natively supports more music services.

The HomePod beats the Sonos One when it comes to sound, but the Sonos One still sounds great and is much less expensive than the HomePod. Most people should probably get the Sonos One. Getting a bundle of two, which you can then stereo pair, actually only costs about $30 more than getting one HomePod. However, if you're already all-in on Apple products, you might still want to consider a HomePod. It really does sound amazing.

Sonos One

Tiny power

$199 at Amazon

The small speaker most people should get

While its sound isn't a full as the HomePod, this small speaker still packs a punch at a much lower price. Built-in Alexa support lets you control Spotify with your voice, and AirPlay 2 lets it you control it with Siri.

Apple HomePod

Superior sound

A great speaker for Apple fans

$349 at Apple

Packing power sound in a small form factor, the HomePod delivers astounding sound quality for Apple Music subscribers. It's hampered by a lack of integration with third-party music services, though AirPlay does help alleviate some of those issues.

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Apple has almost 100 developer studios making games for Apple Arcade

The Apple Arcade developer community continues to grow.

What you need to know

• Apple Arcade is now featuring titles from at least 92 developers
• Apple originally listed 35 developers when Apple Arcade was announced
• Apple Arcade launches on September 19th for $4.99 a month in 150 countries

On Tuesday at Apple's September event, Tim Cook and team unveiled the new 7th generation iPad, Apple Watch Series 5, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and announced Apple TV+ pricing and launch date. It also went into more details about Apple Arcade, its new gaming service that will feature over 100 exclusive games at launch and work across all of Apple's devices like iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV.

Reported by AppleInsider, Apple has largely increased the number of developers that are making games for Apple Arcade, or at least is just now revealing who exactly there are.

When Apple Arcade was originally announced at Apple's March Services event, one of the slides shown at the keynote featured 35 developers who had signed on to develop titles for the service. Some of the notable studios at the time included Disney, Sega, Lego, Konami, Cartoon Network, and Gameloft.

On Tuesday, Apple put up a new slide listing its developers who were creating titles for Apple Arcade, and this time the developer count has almost tripled. The slide now showed not only 92 developers but some additional bigger names in the industry such as Capcom, Square Enix, and Ubisoft.

This new slide does not necessarily mean that Apple has suddenly tripled its developer count for Apple Arcade in 6 months. It is more likely that the company has been in talks with a number of these studios for a long time and both sides had finalized whatever was needed to make the partnership public and ready for Apple Arcade's launch.

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Here’s what the iPhone camera has looked like over the years

What you need to know

• An Reddit user created a side-by-side comparison of every iPhone camera.
• The idea came from the iPhone 11 Pro's polarizing camera design.
• The iPhone camera has truly come a long way from its 2007 origins.

It has been a long journey to weirdness.

The iPhone camera has gradually transformed over the years from the single lens set-up to busier designs that have more going on. None have been more dramatic than the camera that comes with the iPhone 11 Pro. This got an intrepid Apple fan curious about the transformation and led him to create a side-by-side comparison of every iPhone camera.

Up until 2016, the camera was basically the single lens with a slightly tweaked design to include the hump that was first introduced in the iPhone 6. But by the iPhone 7 Plus, Apple introduced the dual-camera set-up that began the radical change in the way the iPhone camera looked.

Photo by benjaninja.

By the iPhone X, the dual camera moved to the vertical placement and eventually Apple went with the polarizing square finish on the iPhone 11 Pro. Redditor benjaninga's comparison really puts the transformation context.

Many people commented on how they preferred the flush camera design and wished Apple would go back to it. There's no denying having a phone that doesn't bobble when you place it down on a flat surface is sorely missed.

It's almost hard to believe that at one point, the camera was one of the most minimalist aspects of the iPhone. Now it has turned into a symbol for which model you have. Once you see the triple-camera system, you'll instantly know people have the new iPhone.

Take a look at the comparison and let us know which was your favorite iPhone camera design.

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