Kuo: New 'HomePod' With Screen to Enter Mass Production After WWDC

[baconcat_8964]

FWIW Google has already nailed this concept, what we actually need is a HomePod style DOCK, afterall iPads have those smart connectors on the back right?

Yeah this is all I want. Smart Connectors third party accessories support is hilarious. A speaker and charging dock for iPads will be good enough.

But it seems like even Google is giving up the idea of Pixel Tablet since they did not update that products for years.

 

[doelcm82]

So buy your kids an iPad mini they can share. You could even mount it on a wall if that's what you're after. And it will be much more versatile than this device, unless there's something about it I'm missing.

I have an iPad for them to share. But that means they share one account. I'd like them to have their own accounts, where they can receive emails and messages and have their own calendars and reminders.

The iPad isn't versatile enough for that use case. I'm waiting to see if this device will be.

 

[AussieStu]

Why do i need this when i have a mac, apple watch or iphone?

 

[jamescharley22]

HomePod Hi-Fi Smart Soundbar/Apple TV-successor… C’mon Apple, fix Smart TV’s for us pllleeeaaase!!!

 

[Galas]

Dock your iPad magnetically, iPad OS automatically enters 'Home' mode and starts charging the iPad.

Then again I'm not so sure iPad OS is advanced enough to handle such a task

That would be the only logical approach.
But hey, this is Tim's Apple, remember?

 

[Macaholic868]

What’s the point of a device like this without serious Siri improvements being available and throughly tested first?

I have serious doubts that the Siri improvements that are being delayed until iOS 19 will improve the usefulness of a device like this since Siri needs to be rewritten from the ground up to make a device like this useful.

Look at what’s coming. We’re not getting the full LLM based Siri in iOS 19 according to the posts I’ve read on this site and elsewhere. It now appears LLM based Siri won’t debut until iOS 20. By then how far will Apple be behind the competition? A few months? Years? Several years?

If Apple can be believed then what will be ready for sure at some point in the iOS 19 lifecycle are the new app intents and the personalized Siri features.

That’s all well and good but how many apps will this device run? If the answer is not many then, like with the Apple Watch and Apple TV, what’s the point of the new Siri app intents outside of those coming to the built in iOS apps assuming those app intents will be ported to this device?

How much personal data will one store on this device considering it’s a device to be used by all in a smart home? I’m guessing not much for privacy reasons so then what’s the point of the new personalized Siri features in iOS 19 if they’re being ported to this device?

An improved LLM based Siri with the ability to respond in a ChatGPT like manner with the ability to make the various apps on the device do things in response plus built-in home pod and home hub abilities is what would make a device like this useful for me and it sure doesn’t seem like Apple will have the technology ready to deliver that king of thing prior to iOS 20.

So again, what’s the point of this?

 

[Boeingfan]

With the iOS 18 Siri and Apple Intelligence features delay, I've shifted my excitement lens from 'oh wow, I'll get one of those!' to 'Meh, I'll wait until it's in the market and does everything they said it would do'.

 

[svish]

Will probably be announced at WWDC but the actual shipping/release might happen only by year end or even early next year and that too in limited markets only.

 

[facedmurkroots]

I’d love it if they released a HomePod with an intelligent smart sort of assistant feature before they worry about things like screens..

 

[psylence2k]

Has anyone actually heard a good argument of what the use of this would be that would be more convenient or better than just having a separate ipad and a homepod ?

I feel like there has to be something I'm missing for Apple to green light slapping a screen onto a homepod when they have multiple product lines from iphones to ipads to macs, with screens that can control homepods and all of these products have entry level/budget versions available as well.

 

[npmacuser5]

Keep in mind that image is the result of some artist/editor throwing together images of existing bits of Apple devices to make a nice image to go with the article. It is almost certainly not what the device Apple releases will look like. They're not dumb enough to slap a screen over the speakers, missing that it blocks the sound - give them some credit. Your beef is with the person who conjured up that image, not Apple.

My beef was the news, not Apple. I strongly believe the Hub should have iPad type speakers. Never a HomePod. Main reason, costs and placement of the Hub.

 

[That70sGAdawg]

With all the iPhones & iPads out there that can already control home hub- WHY is this needed??

 

[liberte1776]

So is this going to be dual purpose and act as a WiFi 7 AirPort & Time Capsule?!

 

[CarlJ]

So is this going to be dual purpose and act as a WiFi 7 AirPort & Time Capsule?!

Magic 8 Ball says, "Answer unclear, try again later".

 

[Naraxus]

"However, he did not reveal any of the specific features that were pulled..."

Ofc he didn't.....