Sources: Apple has hired Afrooz Family, its former employee and a co-founder of speaker startup Syng, to lead HomePod software efforts (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Apple has hired Afrooz Family, its former employee and a co-founder of speaker startup Syng, to lead HomePod software efforts  —  - Apple's smart-speaker efforts have struggled since 2018 debut  — Afrooz Family takes job after co-founding Syng speaker startup