homepod is just rubbish, cannot play BBC yet Alexa can

HomePod asked to play BBC 4 plays 1 Direction, it is absolutely useless: Apple should be sued for selling this item

iPhone 14 Plus, iOS 18

Posted on Dec 5, 2024 12:50 AM

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Rudegar

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Dec 5, 2024 07:45 AM in response to maureen76

from what I can understand then the homepod use tuneIn radio stream to play radio and the BBC pulled their live stuff from tuneIN

you can complain to apple using their feedback channel

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