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Well currently they'd have to completely rebuild the hardware.

This person gave a very good explanation here:

These devices will get replaced every few years anyway. Having to send out new hardware to customers is absolutely no problem for Amazon.

Then by that point privacy as a selling point apple will have the homepod for sale?

I have a bunch, and you only really use them for about 5 things, with the most useful thing being music.

I've used the microphone hardware that Echo uses and it doesn't stream audio until the wake word is received.

Might be pretty expensive to do that.