Apple's HomePod With a Screen Delayed Until Next Year at the Earliest

[seek3r]

I can’t believe you have down votes on this. Must be the bean counters. 😄

Could have to do with differing tax credits too. Companies get massive tax breaks for R&D but those incentives do change a bit over time from fed/state/local, in the US and equiv abroad.

 

[Shanghaichica]

I’m sure people will have an issue with it having cameras that can see your whole room etc

There will probably be a way to disable that if you don’t want it. I have echo shows and they have cameras that can see into the room. However they have a physical privacy switch which can turn off the camera.

 

[Shanghaichica]

Not sure I agree actually, it’s easily the most solid and responsive streaming box out there and, crucially, the only one that isnt heavily subsidized by data mining to sell to third party advertisers and trackers. The true cost of something like Roku or Amazons boxes are hidden by them making money differently, and more invasively.

I have to agree with this. I’ve tried the fire TV stick, chromecast, chromecast with google tv and Roku. The Apple TV is head and shoulders above them all. The interface and performance is much better. The remotes on all of the competion are cheap, flimsy and lacking in quality. I find the interface to be very cluttered, particularly on the fire TV stick. Remotes go missing a lot in my house (have small children). I have AirTags attached to my Apple TV remotes. How would I even buy a use an AirTag to keep track of a fire TV remote when it would cost more than the fire TV stick. I guess it really depends on the value you place on the streaming device. If you have cable then it’s probably not worth paying a lot for a streaming box. I don’t have cable. All my viewing is done via the Apple TV and a la carte subscriptions and outright purchases of digital movies/TV shows. There are also other advantages such as the integration with other devices/ services in the apple ecosystem.

 

[whitby]

I am always amazed at how a possible product that has not been announced is ‘delayed’. The Apple ‘car’, is another one. As far as I am concerned until a product has been announced and a launch date communicated, it cannot be delayed. We can hypothesize about products Apple may or may not be working on, but they are not real until Apple says they are and announces their impending launch. Can we please stop getting ourselves in knots over what might be and focus on what is real.

 

[ScooterComputer]

Perhaps it's time to vote with your wallet and embrace other tech companies with your currency and finally find happiness with others' superior products.

Will you commit to doing that?

I already do. My daily driver is a 2012 13” MBP that I bought second hand, my iPhone is a 12 mini that I waited for (to buy new) while using a 1st-Gen SE (that I’d bought new). Before that the only iPhone I bought new was a 3GS, but I used a half-dozen models gotten used. I have bought 2-pair of AirPods Pro new, because I’m hearing impaired and they work good! are are a “good value” to me for my needs; however the recent pair of 2nd gens have been not so great UX, many issues (iOS software bugs). Got an iPad mini 6 new (that suffers from “jelly scroll”), to replace my iPad mini 2, bought new. A 2018 Mac mini and 2020 MBA, both bought on close-out for half price. I have an entire home wired with HomeKit AND Alexa -compatible devices, and use Echos, because they work better. I have half-a-dozen Rokus and 1 Apple TV, that I got on close out, that sits mostly unused. I also have a small museum of older Apple gear that all works, except Apple the environment propagandists have decided they won’t let me use them for anything useful (several iMacs happily running Win10 or Monterey via OCLP, a 2012 mini running VMware ESX, a 2011 MBP on Win10, etc). All that I bought new were weighed by “value”, we’re they worth the cost for what my expectations were. Hardware has rarely ever been an issue, only software, and primarily always from Apple’s greed via artificially gatekeeping. Considering I know of only a few others who are as diligent as I am in purchasing and then following a repair/reuse/recycling ideology, I’m pretty abhorred as to how much working gear I KNOW they’ve sent to landfills, especially considering their PR on the environment. There is also no reason why Apple couldn’t be putting a minuscule amount of attention to reusing old stuff like iPhones and iPads as Home interfaces, would serve to make the ecosystem much better. But, no. Alas. (Mostly because Siri super-sucks and that many more devices would make it all that much more apparent.)

So yeah, I’m doing my part I think. Guess you didn’t read far enough down in my post to catch that warning about “snarky replies”, eh? Or is reading comprehension a problem for you? Could explain how Apple keeps making money in spite of itself… catering to dumb, blindly-loyal customers. Though if I’ve learned one thing in my 40 years in the Apple community, stupid people wont remain loyal, and a lack of loyal customers leads to dead companies, regardless of how big they get. (As a corollary: smart people do not give loyalty blindly… and big companies that demand blind loyalty also die, regardless of size. Always.)

Maybe you just need to learn to expect more from $2T companies than slickly-produced, platitude and and marketing-speak -filled infomercials. You’re selling yourself (and the community) short.

 

[citysnaps]

So yeah, I’m doing my part I think. Guess you didn’t read far enough down in my post to catch that warning about “snarky replies”, eh? Or is reading comprehension a problem for you?

On the subject of snarky replies: "Or is reading comprehension a problem for you?"

Whoa!