You can now buy the orange Apple HomePod Mini

You can now buy the orange Apple HomePod Mini

You can now buy Apple's HomePod Mini in new colors like yellow, orange, and blue (in addition to the standard white and space gray), and the $99.99 devices are available for in-store pickup today. Apple announced the new colors at the October Unleashed event, where it unveiled its new MacBook Pro model.

This is also where Apple announced its new Apple Music Voice subscription, a cheaper tier of its music streaming service that you only access through the Siri voice assistant, though there will be limited app options; It comes out later this year for $4.99 per month and will work with the Mini.

The new speaker will feature the HomePod Mini's tinted touch surface, fabric mesh, volume icon and power cable with color-matched details. Apple's competitors already have more colorful options for their tiny home assistant speakers — Google has blue and orange versions of the Nest Mini speaker, and Amazon's Echo Dot comes in blue and has some animals for kids. . -themed designs - so it seemed like it was only a matter of time before Apple caught on.

You can order them from Apple's website, Walmart, or Best Buy, with pick-up available today and delivery dates this week in Canada, Mexico, and the US. Orders are also opening today in China, Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan, while availability is listed as "later this month" for Australia, Austria, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Spain and the UK .