And as much as I like Homekit, Apple Home app needs a lot more work. Hopefully with a purpose built machine like this things will improve.
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Kuo: New 'HomePod' With Screen to Enter Mass Production After WWDC
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I don't know what's taking so long but we desperately need this for HomeKit setup! The competition is way ahead. Can't wait to buy many of these for the house!!
Siri has been a tentpole feature of macOS for 13 years and it's never improved.
The iPad isn't currently designed to be a shared devices. This may well be fine for those who live alone but it would be less attractive to those with a family or in a shared living space.
There's not enough homekit ecosystem things yet to warrant an apple-branded server controller for them. A phillips hue bridge is $50, this will probably be $699 and half the software features will be delayed
they should bring back airport routers instead, thats something actually sorely needed because all the ISP-provided generic routers are trash
they should bring back airport routers instead, thats something actually sorely needed because all the ISP-provided generic routers are trash
Me too. A stereo pair of the original full-size (~7") HomePods are superb for any smallish space; I own a pair. Key though is stereo pair. Even though I will pay to buy into an Apple HomeKit Hub, one speaker with a display destroying its acoustics seems like a not good idea. However I have enough Apple experience that I will simply wait and see what the actual product turns out to be.
and the power switch preferably placed bottom and back of the device as all of us are expecting.
HomePod is one of the few products I have/had zero interest in. I B&W speakers which I mostly use for vinyl so the HomePod never really appealed to me. However... if it was a well-made smart home hub, I could be interested in just that.
At least cameras are easy to cover up after the fact:
If the microphone remains inside of the mesh portion, like current HomePods, it's unlikely to have a manual override.
Calling it - HomePod + screen =$499. HomeOS v1.1, etc. It's just so boring. But to be fair, I'm not sure what else they can do. Everything has reached maturity.
Long shot. Maybe some actual useful features by 19.3? Or 20? Apple is a big lying company that wants to change the narrative on how they failed so badly with AI then they made promises and sold 100m iPhones that can’t do what is advertised. It’s flat out wrong. I see a massive class action law suit where Apple pays at least $300 per iPhone 16 to buyers who bought it. I think they should offer a return right now to let people get their money back and would save a fortune long run in the bad will they have created.
The best place for a device like this is on the wall, next to (or replacing) your existing light switches and HVAC controls.
The “speaker base/dock” idea just seems goofy to me. Nobody wants yet another device taking up space on a shelf or kitchen counter!
Right, this seems perfectly logical, but in my case, if that's where it goes — I would never ever use it
I have automations turn lights and set desired temperature, when I arrive home as it is. So I never touch my AC nor my light switches. Ok, not never, but absolutely not enough to justify another device... Ugh.