Apple HomePod vs. Google Home vs. Amazon Echo: Siri Speaker Powered By iOS 11 Revealed At WWDC 2017

At Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple unveiled the HomePod Monday, its latest home device. The compact speaker, which is built to be a hybrid high-end music speaker and home assistant, will be priced at $349 and is slated to come out in December in white or space gray finishes. Apple leaned heavily into the speaker's audio quality and specifications during its WWDC reveal. The cylindrical speaker will be around 7 inches tall and features specifications including a seven-tweeter array for directional audio and a 4-inch upward facing woofer for low-end definition. Read: Alleged Apple Insider Says Apple's Siri Speaker, Glasses In The Works Internally, the speaker will be powered by an Apple A8 chip, which was previously used in the iPhone 6 series and the current-generation Apple TV.