HomePod Mini — I said I wasn’t but I did

At the start of January (2022) I put out a video on YouTube entitled, Dear Apple….Should I buy the HomePod Mini, go check that video that in the link below before you carry on reading otherwise you’ll miss out on the spoiler.

I wanted a speaker, primarily for use on my Mac Mini, because this was an Apple branded speaker I thought that it would be ideal for use with another Apple product in the Mac Mini (as well as use with the iPhone).

When I did my initial research (which usually consists of watching loads of YouTube videos and reading online reviews), I kept coming back to very distinct issues that were most likely going to hinder (what I would consider to be) my primary use of the HomePod Mini.

The 1st issue that kept coming up was the delay. If you’re playing something, whether that be music, YouTube videos or anything else, there would anyways be a mismatch between the picture and the sound. Something that you don’t really want if you do a lot of video editing.

Secondly, because of this issue, you would have thought Apple would have put in external support via an aux port (just like the Amazon Echo Dot has). But no. My main emphasis of my first “Dear Apple…” video centred around the fact, that at…