If they keep the audio components and profile the same and just add a screen, there is greater possibility. Especially since the 2nd gen speaker is relatively new.
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Alleged HomePod Display Component Again Shown Off in Photo
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So dumb…. They should line the bottom with a ring Action Buttons that turn the screen off and can’t be programmed to do anything else. Then come out with a $75 polished chrome stand that keeps the ring of buttons off of the surface of whatever it’s placed on. But the stand only swivels left and right so you still have to pick it up. Oh, and make it USB-C, but with a new specific wattage that none of our other USB-C plugs will work with. Oh, and a dongle that allows you to plug it into a 90w USB-C plug, but in a non-matching color like brown or something so it “pops”. Oh course you can’t plug this into any Mac, it is streaming only, and please make sure the audio isn’t synced to video on the screen.
Doesn't really seem like a convenient location for a display.
Will the display show a persona of Siri laughing at me when it fails to turn off a light six times in a row?
I mean their solution to that is buy 2 homepods and use them paired, they probably dont want to cannibalize that
The only time I ever touch the HomePod Mini is when I have to reboot it and reset it when it goes offline.
An absurdly mismanaged product. Apple missed the market long ago.
The whole smart home division at Apple is a dumpster fire.
The home app has uncountable UI bugs and issues. And the UX, hot garbage. One of the worst apps I have ever used from Apple
I bought an original HomePod three-ish years ago, right before it was deprecated. So whenever that was.
I think I've used it a dozen or so times to play jazz for my dog while I was out for the day.
It is the second least used Apple device I own, next to my Series 6 Apple Watch, which has sat in a drawer for about two years.
Good times.
I think I've used it a dozen or so times to play jazz for my dog while I was out for the day.
It is the second least used Apple device I own, next to my Series 6 Apple Watch, which has sat in a drawer for about two years.
Good times.
Make a subwoofer and the HomePod minis enabled to be surround sound speakers and then people will be interested. I love my paired HomePods and wish I could add HomePod minis as rear speakers
Still managing to do better than amazon and google’s equivalent divisions, not that that’s a high bar to clear
Well I want to agree with you but the app store app ratings tell a different story.
But yeah, Xiaomi’s stuff are leagues better
This is one of the rumors that has made the least sense out of all of the ones I’ve seen here. I really do not get the use case.
Don't worry: a setting to flip the screen will be available in order to match the optional 45° overhead mirror ($ 99.99).
Sorry Apple but as I've said before, a screen facing the ceiling is a dumb, classic form over function location for a display.
Will it look great in photo's ? Yes
Will it look great in an Apple announcement/Video? Yes
Will it look great In-Store when you go to buy one? Yes
Will it look great for "Most People" when they get it home, and start to use it normally day to day? NO
For a few people, who may have the device in the middle of a room, on a short table, then sure, it will be fine, but that's not most people.
Personally I feel, Apple should expand on the general concept of what Amazon do, and have a display which presents information THROUGH to cloth on the side of the device.
You could expand the display area, and add colour also.
Then you can have things like the time / weather / scrolling song lyrics, title, etc etc....
Far more practical for most people.
A higher spec version of this type of display thru cloth on the side, where most people will actually see it.
NOT a fancy screen pointing up at the ceiling.
Will it look great in photo's ? Yes
Will it look great in an Apple announcement/Video? Yes
Will it look great In-Store when you go to buy one? Yes
Will it look great for "Most People" when they get it home, and start to use it normally day to day? NO
For a few people, who may have the device in the middle of a room, on a short table, then sure, it will be fine, but that's not most people.
Personally I feel, Apple should expand on the general concept of what Amazon do, and have a display which presents information THROUGH to cloth on the side of the device.
You could expand the display area, and add colour also.
Then you can have things like the time / weather / scrolling song lyrics, title, etc etc....
Far more practical for most people.
A higher spec version of this type of display thru cloth on the side, where most people will actually see it.
NOT a fancy screen pointing up at the ceiling.
Wow, just imagine it working for once without any issues! And while you are in your wet dreams, also imagine it having an aux input too 
This. Keep HomePods with a purely voice assistant / command interface and stop with the half-assing by turning this into yet another iOS style UX. I have enough Apple devices with a screen all throughout my home, including a dozen iPads and Apple TVs the HomePod could in theory connect to for visual cues…
Adding a display pretty much guarantees they‘ll half-ass the voice commands portion of the HomePod in the future because „it‘s easier to just click that pause button“.