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Apple's HomePod Speakers Leave White Marks on Wood (bbc.com)
Apple's new smart speakers can discolour wooden surfaces, leaving a white mark where they are placed, the firm has acknowledged. From a report: The US company has suggested that owners may have to re-oil furniture if the HomePod is moved. The device went on sale last week after having been delayed from its original 2017 release date. Apple told Pocket-lint that it was "not unusual" for speakers with silicone bases to leave a "mild mark." But the gadget review site told the BBC it had never seen anything like this problem. The website's founder, Stuart Miles, told the BBC that a speaker left a mark on his kitchen worktop within 20 minutes.
This is simply the mark of awesomeness and will totally get you laid if chicks see it.
Only $29.95 at your local Apple store.
Lawsuits starting in 3... 2...
Do they have an hydrochloric acid reserve or something?
They must be holding the speaker wrong, Apple can not be doing anything wrong.
The users are obviously setting it down wrong.
Tim Cook has released the following statement... The Homepod should be levitated as it was designed to do. Sitting it on any surface will void the warranty and produce unsatisfactory sound.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
The speaker has to sit directly on the surface to get good base response. Using a coaster affects listening. So ironically, a glass iBass(@TM- I'm calling dibbs) for $49.99 might be the best solution.
sigs are for losers (except to point out that sigs are for losers)
Apple users tend to bite when they suck.
You're using it wrong if you don't want white marks.
Cook can help.
Well the hipsters with there artisanal oiled butcher block counter tops are frothin about this! Good way to piss off your fake user base Apple.
If this isn't close to the apex of first world problems I don't know what is. Houses so warm they melt your ice cream cone before you finish it?
If you like it, you should'a put a ring on it
If you like it, you should'a put a ring on it
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#DeleteChrome
They should make the bottom have the contour of the apple logo. then you could sell it for a profit.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Jizz, improperly cleaned, after apple users masturbate over their new shiny apple product.
Maybe this is the sha of doom. Without the new spray anyway. Perhaps the prob is the dent in the brain that Amazon Echo and the Google product leave by simply moving the damn thing around. Hopefully they won't have to ban/outlaw/rage/can the entire product.
On your furniture. It could have been worse. Now oil it, or take your furniture to the nearest and let an Apple genius do it for you for only 149 Dollars.
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
Did you read the summary, the report mentions that other speakers don't do that. Or is it too painful for you to learn about shabby engineering from Apple?
If the mark left were shaped like Steve Jobs's visage, Apple users would be jumping for joy around the world. "My God! Steve has appeared in my living room!" The furniture would then be worth 10 times what it was worth before - because Apple users would buy it when sold. What Apple should go for in V 2.0 of the Homepod is leaving more than just a "mark". The Homepod should blast the wood it sits on in pieces, then send you to Apple's iFurniture website for a replacement, which is again blasted to pieces by your Homepod, and so on and so forth. The economics of this gets even more fantastic than you might think, because when the furniture gets blasted to pieces, the Homepod lands on the floor. So you need new furniture AND a new Homepod each time. Homepod V 3.0 may also blast your children to pieces. You can then go to the iChildren website and order robot children made by Apple. Those children will in turn play with the Homepod V 3.0, blasting the furniture, themselves and the Homepod to pieces. You can then go to iEverythingHasGoneToShit website and order replacements. Apple are geniuses.
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
Woodworker here, goombah99 is talking out of his ass. Go ahead and put a heavy piece of plastic on your oiled wood cutting board and see how it won't leave a circle. I find it amusing that some asshole on slashdot can now just lie right through their teeth and be upvoted for it.
Next month Samsung selling speakers with chalk pre-applied to the bottoms.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Usually mean a good time was had.
Can't leave the browns alone. Gotta get your white all over them.
found the retard Apple apologist, there's always at least one
That has been the pattern here since forever with apple cultists here.
Bullshit. You do not know what you're talking about. That, or you do and you're lying.
White privilege in action.
How about a moderation of -1 pedantic.
Guess what, everything leaves a mark on oiled wood. Guess what, the nice thing about oiled wood is you can re-oil it and marks go away.
I assume that you don't own anything with oiled wood if you think that everything marks it. Personally I've never re-oiled any of the nice shiny furniture I have in my house and nothing I place on it seems to leech out the colour either.
I guess you're too busy staring at pictures to read the bits about no other devices causing the problems, reviewers never having seen similar things, and this specific problem being a material incompatibility with silicone and oil.
Speaking of. Can we stop making consumer devices with silicon coatings? FFS they attract dirt like all heck, and look feral after a few months.
They're doing it wrong if the bottom doesn't have a reverse Apple Logo to leave its mark.
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Did you read the summary, the report mentions that other speakers don't do that. Or is it too painful for you to learn about shabby engineering from Apple?
But they must, Apple can't be worse than Google or Amazon therefore competing speakers do leave a mark just like Apple's one does.
Odd, mr. claims-to-be-woodworker, I have lots of oiled wood and my experience everything marks it.
The polyurethane ring on the bottom of most other speakers don't have that issue. Most grades of silicone will consistently leach a small amount of oil, as compared to urethanes or other polymers. Sounds like a poor choice of materials...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
"But the HomePod appears to need contact with the surface that it's on to resonate and create the powerful bass."
Use a coaster you say? I think I'll replace my picture under the "fanboi" definition in the dictionary with yours.
Tired of my customary (Score:1)
You probably are not using a thin food-safe oil but are instead using a cheap linseed oil. Of course you are too stupid to appreciate the difference
Having a stick up your ass doesn't make you a woodworker.
Cause your wallet to smoke once you purchase it!
He's probably just not oiling it right.
That's what she said.
#DeleteFacebook
You're putting it on the table wrong!
Errr, I mean "you're placing on the table wrong."
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
I assume that you don't own anything with oiled wood if you think that everything marks it. Personally I've never re-oiled any of the nice shiny furniture I have in my house and nothing I place on it seems to leech out the colour either.
If it's shiny furniture, it's not oiled.
It could be shellac, but that gets marks even easier, so my bet is that it isn't. Chances are that you have urethane finishes, which do not get stains and stays shiny. But also doesn't get the deep glow.
Parent is choke full of lies and misdirection. Apple sockpuppet?
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
That and you don't have to sand shellac to get marks out, just a quick wipe with ethanol.
Filthy wanker!
Hey, you keep telling us to guess what, but then you don't give us a chance to guess. Sheesh man, I don't like this game.
Respect the wood.
If it's shiny furniture, it's not oiled.
There's shiny and there's *SHINY*. Oiled wood definitely shines more than many others.
You're holding it wrong
Woodworker here, goombah99 is talking out of his ass. Go ahead and put a heavy piece of plastic on your oiled wood cutting board and see how it won't leave a circle. I find it amusing that some asshole on slashdot can now just lie right through their teeth and be upvoted for it.
http://www.echotalk.org/index.php?topic=2014.0
I am getting circular white marks on my wooden furniture from the Echo Dot. Does anyone else have this problem? What would cause this?
Answer: bullshit vapors caused by AC experts working their wood with oil.
My father was a professional woodworker by trade and i have always had a thing for the look of oiled wood. My dad hated it as it is time consuming to build.. but anyhow..
What you have posted is 100% incorrect. My oiled desk doesn't do this, my oiled wall unit doesn't do it, my oiled storage boxes.. well.. you get the picture.
Perhaps instead of using Urethane, Apple can use a product which inst dissolved in a common finish?
Then again, you are clearly pro-apple so common sense is out the window.
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