“Homepod Hub”: The most important apple product of the year?

What will be the most important new product of Apple to be launched in 2025? Eminent Bloomberg Apple Reporter Mark Gurman has In your weekend newspaper An interesting Answer: This is a “home hub” or “homepod hub”. He now also clearly assumes that Apple is combining a potential new “home device” with homepods – possibly as a dock with a removable screen.

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Small and cheap iPad

According to Gurman, it is a type of small and above, cheap iPad that can be used to control smart home appliances. It should be able to handle facetime video chat as well as other tasks. It is “originally a homepod with a screen of about 7 inch.” He considers it the most important new Apple product of the year because it is “the first step towards the company’s big role in smart homes.”

Earlier there were many reports that apart from Apple “Home device”, a homepod with a display could also be brought in the market. “Home device”, even if it is flat, eventually can be connected to the wall to control the house. This can be solved by the idea of ​​a dock that contains speakers. What really this will happen is unclear. So far no availability date seems to be there, but the spring may occur instead of being later.

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Your own home hardware and robot

The purpose of the home (pod) hub is to become another basis for using Apple Intelligence in combination with Apple’s Homcits and Matter Technology. Apple currently does not offer its own smart home device in addition to Homepod 2 and Homepod Mini, but an Apple TV can also serve as a control center, and control the house using iPhone, iPad or Mac goes.

Additional hardware always comes from suppliers, such as cameras for Homcomit Secure Video. Apparently Apple is now planning to introduce its home appliances, including dorbells with security cameras or videos. At least Gurman wants to hear this. High-end versions of the Home (Pod) Hub are also planned later, such as a screen robotic version that follows the user.

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