Is Apple's HomePod a blatant ripoff of this startup's smart speaker?

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Apple's newly-announced HomePod speaker looked familiar, but we couldn't quite put a finger on it.

Until this morning, when an email from Whyd CEO Gilles Poupardin came through, with a single sentence: "Hey Raymond - looks like you nailed it .." The email came along with a screenshot of an article we published last year—about Whyd's voice-controlled speaker, that HomePod bears a striking resemblance to. 

And the headline? "This voice-controlled speaker looks like something Apple would design." 'Might as well have been a prophecy. Read more...

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via Zero Tech Blog

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