Kuo: Apple to Launch Redesigned HomePod With 7-Inch Display in 2024

[MacRumors]

Apple will release a redesigned HomePod with a 7-inch display in the first half of 2024, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.

In a brief post on Medium, Kuo wrote that the next-generation HomePod's display could facilitate deeper integration with Apple's other hardware products.

Tianma apparently will be a beneficiary of Apple's "revamped smart home strategy," becoming the sole supplier of the redesigned HomePod's display. If its participation in manufacturing the new HomePod goes well, Tianma may be entrusted to supply iPad panels in the future.

In 2021, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman was first to suggest that Apple is working on new HomePod models with displays and cameras. He has also reported that Apple is working on multi-touch functionality for the HomePod. In the long term, Apple is believed to be rethinking its smart home strategy and is reportedly working on a combined Apple TV and HomePod device, as well as a HomePod with a screen mounted on a robotic arm. The HomePod already runs a variant of tvOS, but there are some indications that Apple is working on a new "homeOS" platform.

Article Link: Kuo: Apple to Launch Redesigned HomePod With 7-Inch Display in 2024

 

[Gengar]

Hopefully it looks better than that.

 

[H. Flower]

Until Siri gets fixed, these home products are irrelevant.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Hopefully, the 7-inch screen comes with an OLED display. In addition, Siri needs to be fixed to integrate better!

 

[redbeard331]

Hopefully, the 7-inch screen comes with an OLED display. In addition, Siri needs to be fixed.

Please don’t let be a 60hz lcd with an A4 chip 😂



Also, what would be the use for a screen other than FaceTime calls??

 

[3Gmatt]

Hopefully, the 7-inch screen comes with an OLED display. In addition, Siri needs to be fixed to integrate better!

Yeah, for only $1500…

 

[Pakaku]

Those bezels are awful. Not interested until the screen's edge-to-edge, thanks.

 

[Thoradin]

Sounds like a perfect replacement for the HomePod Mini in my kitchen.

I often find my wife awkwardly propping up her phone in there for FaceTime calls or following recipes

 

[3Gmatt]

If the sound quality and price is between the mini and full-size hp then I might buy. But what would you stereo pair this with?

 

[KaliYoni]

The telescreen was silent for a moment. Winston raised his head again. The bulletin! But no, they were merely changing the music.

The music from the telescreen stopped and a voice took over. Winston raised his head to listen. No bulletins from the front, however. It was merely a brief announcement from the Ministry of Plenty. In the preceding quarter, it appeared, the Tenth Three-Year Plan's quota for bootlaces had been over-fulfilled by 98 per cent.

But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

--George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Please don’t let be a 60hz lcd with an A4 chip 😂



Also, what would be the use for a screen other than FaceTime calls??

Maybe for something like this? Magic Ball style! shake it.. let Apple tell you what music you should play.

 

[RedWeasel]

Until Siri gets fixed, these home products are irrelevant.

Siri and Apple Music. I still get glitches in the first 15 or 30 seconds of tracks sometimes with Lossless and/or Spatial Audio enabled.

 

[Fraserh02]

Hopefully, the 7-inch screen comes with an OLED display. In addition, Siri needs to be fixed to integrate better!

You know there needs to be improvements when TheYayAreaLiving is critical 😂

 

[LoveTo]

I love it! If this does happen, surely security cameras or doorbells would be next which would show live feed on this screen!

 

[robinp]

An appletv / HomePod combo that removes the need for separate boxes by your tv would be great. Just plug in the single thing to an HDMI and off you go.

 

[Snoopotic]

„HomePod Show“
🫣

 

[Bolt1982]

So Apple basically will be releasing their version of the Echo Show

 

[Kierkegaarden]

Not happening. Kuo is getting wrong information or he is confusing this with a completely different product. What would be the point of a non-portable speaker with a screen — why wouldn’t you just use an iPhone or iPad, or Mac?

 

[RammyXX]

deeper integration with Apple's other hardware products

Bit of a shame I still can't ask Siri to play music from my library on my Mac mini.
Oh yeah, it's because they want to sell Apple Music subscriptions.

When "Think different" still meant something to Apple and it wasn't all about generating as much profit as possible, features like this would have been a given.

 

[lovehateapple]

I wonder if this in place of or in addition to the dedicated HomeOS iPad they're rumored to be working on?

The rendering must have a through the screen or through the mesh camera?

 

[melapple]

Why oh why the need to use those hideous and preposterous mock-ups invented out of thin air? You lose any credibility with those

 

[lovehateapple]

Sounds like a perfect replacement for the HomePod Mini in my kitchen.

I often find my wife awkwardly propping up her phone in there for FaceTime calls or following recipes

Why don't you just get her one of the third party stands?

 

[szw-mapple fan]

Please don’t let be a 60hz lcd with an A4 chip 😂



Also, what would be the use for a screen other than FaceTime calls??

Timers, recipes, smart cameras, weather, etc. There are a lot of things where adding a screen can provide context to the answers by Siri.

 

[pauloregan]

This and the two other potential products are ridiculous.
Who wants an Apple TV box in a Homepod?

 

[Bustycat]

Hopefully it looks better than that.

Or this?