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Apple Aiming to Launch Tabletop Robotic Home Device as Soon as 2026 With Pricing Around $1,000
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The iPad is a personal device. From what this article says, it can recognize different voices. I take that to mean this device would be something more akin to a "family" type hub. "Show me the security camera in the garage". "What's little Tommy's soccer schedule this week?" "What's on our grocery list?" aka, show me anything on our "Family List" asked by mom, dad,or kid(s) etc etc etc. I think I would deff get this depending on price.
Too bad! I think this is what happens when the leadership team puts investors as the top priority. They have a hard time not participating in fads (smart ring, VR headset, smart home command centre, Apple Car, meh over the ear headphones, and probably a folding phone too, which ironically I'm actually a fan of at least in Z Fold form, and AI, which they actually seem to be doing a decent job at).
Lol. Ofc. It'll be panned here because this thing is a joke, a gross misuse of r&d money and manpower, and there is no use case for it that an iPad & a stand can't do already.
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This makes no sense. I just can’t believe Apple will really do this.
Where would you put it? The kitchen? Great, then it’s a niche device for people who spend a lot of time cooking maybe, or want to video chat while cooking, who knows.
Or maybe it’s going to be the living room? If only there were already some kind of TV screen in your living room that’s pointed at the furniture, maybe with a device that you could plug into it to show HomeKit info, but also that you could stream shows, watch YouTube and play games on. And imagine if that device could wirelessly connect to a HomePod to handle Siri HomeKit requests…
… ah well, I guess nothing like that exists. I’ll have to buy the weird robotic arm thing to put on my coffee table in front of my TV, AppleTV, and stereo HomePods.
All sarcasm aside, if Apple just brought out a wireless webcam for the AppleTV they would already have the ultimate home automation hub device.
(Yes, I know you can do that silly thing where you use your iPhone as a webcam, but who can be bothered with that? Release a permanent dedicated webcam that I can leave permanently on top of my TV please!)
Where would you put it? The kitchen? Great, then it’s a niche device for people who spend a lot of time cooking maybe, or want to video chat while cooking, who knows.
Or maybe it’s going to be the living room? If only there were already some kind of TV screen in your living room that’s pointed at the furniture, maybe with a device that you could plug into it to show HomeKit info, but also that you could stream shows, watch YouTube and play games on. And imagine if that device could wirelessly connect to a HomePod to handle Siri HomeKit requests…
… ah well, I guess nothing like that exists. I’ll have to buy the weird robotic arm thing to put on my coffee table in front of my TV, AppleTV, and stereo HomePods.
All sarcasm aside, if Apple just brought out a wireless webcam for the AppleTV they would already have the ultimate home automation hub device.
(Yes, I know you can do that silly thing where you use your iPhone as a webcam, but who can be bothered with that? Release a permanent dedicated webcam that I can leave permanently on top of my TV please!)
And as many have pointed out here, the iPad was indeed "just a big iPhone" which is part of the reason for its massive success. Millions of people were already familliar with how to use it without having touched it.
What is happening. This company is so out of touch with reality on some of these new products they are launching. Was the $5k VR headset that no one kept not eye opening enough for you??? Who’s buying a $1000 echo show branded apple with garbage Siri? I’ll tell you, the 3000 Apple fanboys who buy anything Apple, the rest of us will stick with fair priced products.
Why would I buy this instead of using my iPhone, iPad, HomePod or even my Mac? I'm not sure what the appeal of the product is.
There's definitely demand for the iPad Mini. Sadly not enough people got the iPhone Mini, so not enough demand for Apple to make more of those.
And "nobody asked for a thousand songs in your pocket." But, the people on Mac tech forums who said those words (mocking Steve Jobs' introduction of iPod years ago) I suspect probably purchased a few.
It might be best to wait and see what Apple comes up with.
Regarding photo editing... The Photos app on all iPhones and iPads does an excellent job for the casual user.
For those who are serious about photography and want to edit on a display many times larger than a mobile phone, Lightroom does an outstanding job. Apple lost that battle years ago with Aperture not competing very well against Lightroom.
Spot on and no doubt offering much much more. Nice seeing someone who's not afraid to exercise their imagination.
I believe we have entered the era in which Apple is rapidly running out of areas to grow their business. The Vision Pro has not been a success and the car project is cancelled. So we are about to see a raft of new products that are essentially rehashes of iOS in new and weird form factors. Feels reminiscent of Apple in the late 80s when they began to lose their way and had trouble innovating. Expect weird products with displays like this thing, extra displays on existing product lines like a foldable iPhone that start at $1999, displays on HomePods, and weird dual-screen MacBooks that start at $2999. I also think we will also start seeing cameras added to products that don't currently have cameras. It will be all about how many displays and cameras are all around us. And everything will be unnecessarily thin.