In step with analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple might be working on a brand new HomePod software that will function a integrated show for 2024. The rumor appears to be according to third-party provide chain corporations, comparable to Tianma, a Chinese language show producer.
This new product within the HomePod lineup would glance utterly other from current HomePods as it could function a seven-inch show. In different phrases, it could appear to be a speaker with a small pill (or a small pill with a speaker) just like the Amazon Echo Show or Google’s Nest Hub.
Kuo believes that Apple is in the midst of revamping its good house technique with new units and contours. Along with the HomePod Mini, Apple just lately launched a new premium HomePod with a well-known glance. It looks as if the type that debuted in 2018 however with logo new interior elements.
There’s a reason why Apple is focusing extra at the good house. Matter, a brand new good house same old, is meant to unify good house units — and Apple is likely one of the release companions. The brand new HomePod helps Thread, the Topic-backed wi-fi protocol particularly designed for IoT units.
“The brand new Topic good house connectivity same old provides customers extra selection and interoperability to glue all kinds of good house equipment throughout other ecosystems,” Apple’s vice chairman of {Hardware} Engineering and Operations Matthew Costello told TechCrunch’s Brian Heater final month. “With improve for Thread, the brand new HomePod can function a border router and securely permit communications to Thread-based equipment situated right through the house.”
Apple could also be the corporate at the back of the iPad. Including a touchscreen show to a wise speaker would make sense for the corporate as many of us already use and prefer their iPad. It might be a well-known interface and may additionally doubtlessly run some well-liked iPad apps out of the field.
In January, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman stated that Apple has additionally been operating on a wise show that may be used to regulate your good house. Necessarily, it could be a low-end iPad that it’s worthwhile to mount on a wall to regulate your lighting, thermostat and extra.
It’s unclear whether or not Ming-Chi Kuo is speaking about the similar software or now not. This good house pill may raise the HomePod logo, or Apple might be operating on two separate units — a wall-mounted pill and a countertop HomePod with a pill.
