I tried using my iPad Air as a home hub, but the issue is Siri prioritization. It goes to HomePods if they are in the vicinity and not the iPad, even though the iPad processes, the request much faster.
You can buy a strap that lets you use your iPod nano as a watch.There are all kinds of wall brackets like "little TV" wall brackets that can allow a person to utilize perhaps a former iPad laying in a drawer for "hub" functionality like this... with which one could also use ANY powered speaker vs. only one from Apple and thus as locked down as HPs.
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I just don't see the point of putting a function-minimized iPad hard-affixed to a HP. I'd rather have a fully-functional iPad and a HP or any other speaker used in the same ways. This will need to do something oddly special (and hard to imagine) to make more sense than maybe reallocating an old iPad with a counter or wall bracket for positioning it and about any kind of speaker. These kind of brackets can be had for well south of $50.
And note, you'd have a "whole" iPad too.
It will be priced much less than AVP. And will appeal to people with healthy imaginations. You are correct that people who are cynical with closed minds will probably not be interested and pan it on MR. That's a tradition.
Healthy imaginations? It’s not a HomeKit screen and will be no more exciting than google or Amazon’s version. It’s not a wonder gizmo.
Home automation just isn’t exciting for any level of imagination. It’s a locked-down house of cards that constantly has to be babysat. Yawn.
Can't WAIT to see this inside a busy Apple Store. As it tries to figure out who to identify and track...Gurman has previously described a more ambitious product with a larger screen mounted on a robotic arm that would be able to identify users and automatically track them as they move around a room.
Thank you for making my case.
Worse, because it will support less apps.So, an iPad mini mounted on top of a HomePod mini
Agreed. Otherwise they’d be better off selling a base stand with magnetic attachment points as an accessory to any iPadThis thing has to be priced cheaper than an iPad, since an iPad could also double as home hub.
Ah, pardon me. I didn't know the new Home Hub architecture does not support iPad anymore; only the old architecture still supports the iPads.But it can’t. An iPad can’t be a hub.
You may have such an imagination, but Apple does not.
Yeah... 1 billion active and repeat customers. Pretty good for a tech company with no imagination.
People carrying around folios of scratched CDs. With each one having 1-2 songs you wanted and the rest being # filler tracks.iPod: Who asked for a thousand songs in your pocket?
Oh I’m guessing you weren’t around in 2001. A lot of people were like “who asked for this?” Some people thought Apple was starting to lose focus even.People carrying around folios of scratched CDs. With each one having 1-2 songs you wanted and the rest being # filler tracks.
The value of the iPod+iTMS and the iPhone were immediate and obvious. They didn't need explaining, they didn't need "imagination" to figure out what edge-cases they might be useful for. Compare to more recent offerings and now this.
Doubtful it would have an articulating arm.
In any case, it will for sure be a successful product.
I’d be surprised if has an arm at all.As someone whose eyesight isn’t that great anymore, the design is already a non-starter, unless the arm is really long (which it won’t be). Unlike Amazon’s and Google’s smart home displays, you also can’t just pick it up with your hands, as the heavy base will be dangling below.
But if it is categorized as a "HomePod" then it would have the same priority as the other HomePods. My hope is that it runs a faster processor than the other HomePods. Right now if I ask my HomePod to turn on a light it takes longer than asking my iPhone, iPad, or Mac. However, the priority still goes to the HomePod.Pair that iPad with "dumb" speakers since smarter smarts are in the iPad.
Move the HPs to other rooms where you have no such alt interface available.
Else, if this thing is basically a HP with a screen, it too will be likely conflict in the very same way with other nearby HPs.
Because Apple wants to sell you as many devices as possible, and have you replace them every five years.Why can’t this be done with the software alone?