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Gurman: Apple Still Working on Combined HomePod and Apple TV With FaceTime Camera
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Toss the 24” iMac panels into a Apple Home Display that uses airplay only, studio quality mics and speakers, FaceTime camera. Basically an iMac, but less features or tech. I’ll place them everywhere.
The device won’t have the kind of camera people think. It will have camera-like sensors that provide room scale, full body tracking to assist in AR and VR.
It will be this and / or positioning your iPhone as a temporary. A permanent appliance in your best room for VR will be preferred and it will provide soundscape for those who can’t or don’t want to wear headphones.
TVs are done. That tech and experience is bad.
Apple is not releasing a TV and they certainly aren’t going to help these crappy “smart” tv manufacturers continue to stay in business subsidizing pricing by invading people’s privacy.
It will be this and / or positioning your iPhone as a temporary. A permanent appliance in your best room for VR will be preferred and it will provide soundscape for those who can’t or don’t want to wear headphones.
TVs are done. That tech and experience is bad.
Apple is not releasing a TV and they certainly aren’t going to help these crappy “smart” tv manufacturers continue to stay in business subsidizing pricing by invading people’s privacy.
Might not be any time soon. Pricing might be on the higher side also.
ATV already supports at least the keyboard. All I see missing is WebKit and the ability to run a browser. Put Safari on there, and it would be awesome.
It work great for the exact things that I do everyday.
“Hey Siri, turn on the TV”
“Hey Siri, raise living room brightness to 85%”
“Hey Siri, toggle the ‘Bed Light’ and the ‘Fan’”
“Hey Siri, turn on the ‘Mirror‘ and ‘Chandelier’”
“Hey Siri, play my ‘Relax my Puppy’ playlist “
“Hey Siri set a 15 minute ’Pizza’ timer”.
“Hey Siri, what’s the forecast/temperature?”
“Hey Siri how many ‘X’ is three ‘Y’s?”
“Hey Siri, how long will it take me to get to X’s house?”
I’ve complained about Siri’s speed of response before and ‘dumbness’ but I don’t really find myself using it for much more than the above and it’s perfectly responsive. I named my devices within Home and put them in specific rooms so my fiancée can just say “turn on my dressing room lights” or some variation to control the mirror and chandelier together. The toggle command switches multiple devices to the opposite state in one shot.
Dunno, it’s not that bad. It can’t order more tide pods or display anything due to lack of a screen but the HomePod and Siri actually work well together now. It wasn’t always this way of course…
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Apple should go the route of something like Sonos and create a modular system that people can adapt for their needs: Apple TV by itself for people who don't want/already have a surround system, soundbar with Apple TV included, add 2 HomePod minis for surround sound, add subwoofer for full surround sound.
Can you get iOS to display a screen saver of images from a specific album? If so, I'd gladly get my mom an iPad and something like this.
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Not at $1-2k. (well, you might but most people won't. They're not big enough to replace a TV)
I would much rather see Apple make a true Home Media Hub that would be a combination of an updated Airport Extreme with a built in network accessible hard drive (user expandable or just a fast port), and a Apple TV. One unit to stream internet and/or your own media files from, and provide a network hub for all your non-wifi devices (it would have WiFi too of course). Make it able to connect to external speakers (optical to surround receivers) or to multiple HomePod Mini's for surround sound.
Leave the cameras on the laptops, monitors, iPads and iPhones. if you plug in a monitor that has a camera built in, let it use that, but don't build it into the box. That limits where you put the device. The best version would be a stripped down M1 Mac Mini with a built in multi-port gigabyte network switch, running new AppleTV software that is smart enough to deal with cameras, monitors, external hard drives and speakers plugged into it. One box that does the job of a few other ones.
Leave the cameras on the laptops, monitors, iPads and iPhones. if you plug in a monitor that has a camera built in, let it use that, but don't build it into the box. That limits where you put the device. The best version would be a stripped down M1 Mac Mini with a built in multi-port gigabyte network switch, running new AppleTV software that is smart enough to deal with cameras, monitors, external hard drives and speakers plugged into it. One box that does the job of a few other ones.
You don’t need to ‘let go’. The product is still strongly supported and works great.
I just wish they’d bring out the inevitable actual apple television
It’s obviously going to happen sooner or later , now that will be game over for everyone else , quite literally
It’s obviously going to happen sooner or later , now that will be game over for everyone else , quite literally
Arguably has had better support after it got cancelled than prior: HomePods as default speakers, Dolby ATMOS support for movies and then music. Just stunning how good they are now.
My point was not about capabilities of Google or Amazon speakers vs HomePods, but more that the market for these devices in general has matured. I’m sure there are more opportunities for growth, but it likely will need to be with some device that goes above and beyond what is out there today, and even then will likely be a niche item.
Apple should buy Sonos. One speaker does not make a home sound system.
This is just me speculating, but I don't think Apple wants to deal with these due to the inevitable QC issues/complaints...and the prospect of folks who shelled out $15k dragging their 85" OLED AppleTV into the Apple Stores for returns/exchanges.
TVs are just a huge (literally and figuratively) pain -- and the margins are somewhat questionable also.
If you go peruse a place like AVSForum, it's fairly mesmerizing to see all the minutia and overly critical little technical corners that home theater/AV enthusiasts get wrapped around the axle about.
Seeing as how the studio display is 27 inches and higher quality pane… and it priced at $1500 to start, I would imagine this would be like $750-$1k at most.