Here's Why Apple's All-New Home Hub is Delayed

[citysnaps]

Totally agree!

All good to still discuss rumors and be frustrated it's taking so long, though, right?

As I stated earlier in the thread, I have a great use case for this thing and would have loved to have it already ... but my prospective users are timing out with dementia and Apple taking so long is bumming me out big time here.

Being frustrated about mere rumors is a huge waste of time for me. Life goes on. I just don't feel the need to get a feel-good blast of adrenaline slamming Apple *every day of the week* on tech forums.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Being frustrated about mere rumors is a huge waste of time for me. Life goes on.

Maybe you missed what I said about my relatives and the dementia increasing?
The folks I'd like to use this product for are rapidly "not" going to have life going on anymore..

Can you understand why I'm a bit bummed and have some empathy around that?

 

[Premium1]

Another device? Can’t my iPad Pro just be my home hub?

No apple decided to take that away (only to reintroduce something similar yet a new device you need to buy years later). This is the new apple way..

 

[Premium1]

Seems like a device that no one really needs and I recall similar devices back in the 1980’s and nobody wanted them either. How’s this much different than the low cost Alexis device? So it has a screen, yeah. I am supposed to stand if front of to FaceTime someone? Seems lame.

Because it has an apple logo that's why lol.

 

[IceCool]

Everything is delayed or not delivered, this is the new Apple. And we have Samsung out there smashing innovation making cool products

Can't be delayed if it was never announced.

 

[citysnaps]

No apple decided to take that away (only to reintroduce something similar yet a new device you need to buy years later). This is the new apple way..

I'd recommend not purchasing the upcoming similar device and continue to use the one that currently meets your needs. And save a lot of $$$$.

We all have agency in our lives. It's all a matter of exercising it when needed.

 

[Plutonius]

Lately, Siri is a convenient excuse for many of Apple release problems.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Can't be delayed if it was never announced.

And yet here you are 👇 discussing a different rumor, as thought it were fact, from the very same source (Gurman)

I think some are missing the point here… it’s not necessarily about integrating Perplexity into Apple’s operating systems as their own AI, rather it’s about buying the experience that comes with it. Perplexity is an AI company and, from what it seems right now, Apple’s engineers could probably benefit from more people specialized in AI.

And, as someone else mentioned, it also does serve as breathing room from the “allegations.”

 

[ThisIsMike]

Remeber reading a similar article like this, recently....somewhere.
Give it wheels, and Siri will drive it away to the sunset, and never be seen again.

lol you read the similar article here. I remember it as well. And I believe I made a similar comment then.

There’s really no need for these. We all know why it’s delayed.

 

[wanha]

It's the sort of device I might have purchased for my senior relatives so they could see Apple Photos (uploaded remotely by family members), do FT calls, see the calendar and weather and maybe listen to streaming radio/music.

But ... Apple is taking so bloody long to do anything, they legitimately may both be dead before this thing comes out it seems like.

Seriously, have we noticed how unable to execute well and in a timely fashion Apple is anymore?

Marrying an iPad to a HomePod shouldn't be taking years and years and years.

AI is clearly envisioned as a core technology around which a product like this is built, so it's hardly just "marrying a HomePod and iPad".

When a core technology gets delayed, it has a significant impact on products that depend on it.

Any product that depends on AI is currently delayed at Apple.

 

[VulchR]

Everything is delayed or not delivered, this is the new Apple. And we have Samsung out there smashing innovation making cool products

Everything made by Samsung looks like it was made by Samsung.

 

[Sebbug]

Question to the community. Is this product supposed to replace the HomePod, so will it have the same sound quality or is it just another home product. What do you say?

 

[Ctrlos]

I would have assumed that the lack of general consumer interest in smart homes would have killed the project dead. Amazon couldn't make it work and they probably have the most (in)famous platform/ecosystem of the lot.

 

[DocMultimedia]

I’ll most likely buy one if it is ever released as a product. That of course is just a rumor. 🤣

 

[darngooddesign]

No apple decided to take that away (only to reintroduce something similar yet a new device you need to buy years later). This is the new apple way..

What has Apple actually taken away?

 

[Neil J. Squillante]

Another device? Can’t my iPad Pro just be my home hub?

Yes but many people don’t have an iPad. Also, it’s nice to have a dedicated display for a smart home, especially security cameras. I hope Apple is planning larger displays in the future if indeed it plans to get into the security camera business.

 

[darngooddesign]

Friend...
There's no need to be this irritated, nor directly aggressive.

Reading these posts is not compulsory.
This is all optional!

Pointing out that you are commenting like rumors are fact is not aggressive; it's actually more factual than any of these Hub rumors.

What seems to be compulsory is acting like an unknown thing with an unknown release timeframe not being released yet is concrete evidence of something.

 

[Martin Bland]

It is likely delayed because it is a pointless product that will never see the light of day.

Home automation screens look cool in movies but are useless in real life.

The home automation hobby is a graveyard of unused home “dashboards” and similar displays. They aren’t usable by, or interesting to, anyone who doesn’t treat home automation as a hobby (aka family members)

Further, requiring a user to go to a specific location in the house to do what they should be able to do on the iPad in their hand is inconvenient.

If home automation isn’t invisible to the inhabitants, then it is a hobby.

 

[ZipZilla]

The Siri team must be working on this. Also delayed until 2026. SAD!

 

[ZipZilla]

It is likely delayed because it is a pointless product that will never see the light of day.

Home automation screens look cool in movies but are useless in real life.

The home automation hobby is a graveyard of unused home “dashboards” and similar displays. They aren’t usable by, or interesting to, anyone who doesn’t treat home automation as a hobby (aka family members)

Further, requiring a user to go to a specific location in the house to do what they should be able to do on the iPad in their hand is inconvenient.

This.

I consider myself to be an electronics and computer enthusiast, but I have zero desire to have a "Smart home." I realize some people do want that and tastes vary, but I don't see mass adoption.

 

[willyx]

So now you have some kind of "partnership" to be the loudspeaker of stock manipulator Gurman and you're going to collaborate with his agenda?

 

[smulji]

Another device? Can’t my iPad Pro just be my home hub?

Or any iPad for that matter?

 

[smulji]

It's the sort of device I might have purchased for my senior relatives so they could see Apple Photos (uploaded remotely by family members), do FT calls, see the calendar and weather and maybe listen to streaming radio/music.

The $349 iPad can do all that already and, from the sounds of it, will be cheaper.

 

[turbineseaplane]

The $349 iPad can do all that already and, from the sounds of it, will be cheaper.

They have dementia

Normal iPads (& iPhones of late) have proved too complex unfortunately.

😞

 

[iSuzan]

The news getting crazier and crazier.

How can something be delayed if it wasn't even announced?