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Apple's HomePod Speakers Leave White Marks on Wood (bbc.com)

Posted by msmash on from the stranger-things dept.

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.

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  1. Feature, not a bug by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is simply the mark of awesomeness and will totally get you laid if chicks see it.

    1. Re:Feature, not a bug by hey! · · Score: 4, Funny

      Come back to my place and we'll put on some White Stripes.

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  2. You need the HomePod iCoaster! by Blinkin1200 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Only $29.95 at your local Apple store.

  3. Re:20 minutes? by flightmaker · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, it'll be concentrated Malic acid.

  4. Re:Setting it down wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm oiling my wood right now.

  5. It makes your table more more valuable by goombah99 · · Score: 4, Funny

    They should make the bottom have the contour of the apple logo. then you could sell it for a profit.

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  6. Steve Has Appeared On My Furniture! by dryriver · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  7. You know what this means by SuperKendall · · Score: 3, Funny

    Next month Samsung selling speakers with chalk pre-applied to the bottoms.

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  8. Ibviousky racist by mschuyler · · Score: 3, Funny

    White privilege in action.

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