Days ago we talked about how daring it would be to send your HomePod to the SAT out of warranty, the smart speaker from the Cupertino company promises unparalleled sound thanks to spectacular hardware, at least that's how the Apple guys sell it but ... How is the Apple HomePod inside?
IFixit technicians, who rose to stardom for dismembering high-end technological devices and assigning a degree of repairability, have not been able to miss the opportunity to smash the HomePod, we go by parts, as Jack the Ripper would say, that's how difficult it will be to repair your HomePod out of warranty.
The HomePod is complex, a lot. In fact, iFixit has announced that it has literally not found an easier way to access the guts of the device that shattering it (although they point out that Apple may have some ace up its sleeve in its SAT manuals). In fact, Apple itself has chosen to barely make repairs to it and choose to replace it with a new one. The first and most surprising thing they have found is a fourteen-pin connector that they apparently use to test the system or perform internal diagnostics, yes, it is under glue, a lot of glue.
In the meantime, they have found hardware that would represent roughly 1 GB of RAM and up to 16 GB of storage in total (too much if we consider that it does not store music offline). As for the power cable, it is not easy to replace either, but precisely because the guys at Apple have not wanted it, because it can also be removed and reinserted without too much complication. However, if we consider that it is a loudspeaker, we should not have too many "accidents" with it. Be that as it may, the HomePod is still surprising, but as with AirPods, Apple makes it extremely difficult to repair these types of gadgets.
- Full analysis by iFixit.