As a refresher, Apple made a surprise move back in March to discontinue its more expensive, original HomePod, leaving the $99 HomePod mini that arrived in November 2020 as the sole option. But Apple did continue selling the remaining HomePod stock into May.
It seemed possible that strategy could have given Apple’s smart speaker adoption a boost with the only option being $200 less expensive, however, the latest report from CIRP doesn’t show such an impact.
The report didn’t label the exact HomePod/mini market share, but based on the graph, it appears to have grown ever so slightly YoY to ~7 million units, putting the US HomePod market share under 10%.
