Siri comes to living room with Home Pod

Apple introduced a music speaker, its first hardware since Apple Watch was rolled out two years ago, at this year's WWDC.

To be "smart," the latest product in Apple's portfolio, known as HomePod, comes with a A8 microprocessor chip, the same power engine in the company's flagship iPhone smartphone and iPad tablet computer.

To be available on the market in December this year, the compact wireless speaker has some identical functions offered by similar products made by other companies, such as Amazon Echo, but promises to produce sound with higher quality, Xinhua reported. HomePod is deemed a more expensive competitor of Echo, which was released two years ago.