New Apple TV and HomePod Mini Launching in 2025

[MacRumors]

Apple plans to refresh both the Apple TV and the HomePod mini in 2025 as part of a major push into refreshing its smart home product offerings, reports Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

In a report on an upcoming Apple-designed Bluetooth and Wi-Fi chip, Gurman says that the chip will be introduced in a new Apple TV and HomePod mini that are "scheduled" for 2025. While there is no exact timeline included, Gurman separately mentions that the chip will be included in iPhones "later next year," which suggests it will come to the HomePod mini and the Apple TV before the September timeframe.

The component will support Wi-Fi 6E, though Apple may not be able to match all of Broadcom's chip capabilities with the first-generation in-house Wi-Fi chip.

Adopting a custom-designed Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip will allow Apple's upcoming smart home devices to work better together and perhaps "synchronize data more quickly."

Apple is also working on a home hub "Command Center" that's set to come out in 2025, but it's not clear if that device will use the custom chip. The Command Center will have a 6-inch display with a built-in speaker and camera, and it will be able to control smart home devices, make video calls, and more.

Article Link: New Apple TV and HomePod Mini Launching in 2025

 

[abatabia]

What I’m more curious about is a less buggy os for the HomePods. Also having a mini pair as surrounds for the big HomePods. Not sure where the TV can go from here but I’m curious to see how this plays out.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Probably will add a 3rd tier to the ATV lineup just as a way to increase ASPs

(by moving something up the line again, like happened with ethernet)

 

[poematik13]

Damn I just got a homepod mini for my nightstand last week lol

 

[socialwill]

Would be nice to see an Apple TV Pro device with support for gaming, if Apple ever wanted to push into this area.

 

[TechWhisperer]

The component will support Wi-Fi 6E, though Apple may not be able to match all of Broadcom's chip capabilities with the first-generation in-house Wi-Fi chip.

I’ll wait for the third generation.

 

[DaniTheFox]

Not sure where the TV can go from here but I’m curious to see how this plays out.

I anticipate that it will have at least an A17 for AI and Gaming.

 

[suchnerve]

Good. Apple TV urgently needs hardware decoding support for AV1, and it will eventually also need hardware decoding support for H.266 VVC.

 

[npmacuser5]

Home automation a mess today. Apple has an opportunity to clean-up the mess. Good!

 

[kunze50]

"I found some web results. I can show them if you ask again from your iPhone"

 

[turbineseaplane]

Why do we still bring up "gaming"?

Apple has no interest in being a good supportive partner for third party gaming companies, which is what's needed for that to flourish

It's not a hardware power issue -- it's a developer relations, support and cooperation issue

Apple is horrific at that, as they are so far up their own rear-end thinking that everyone should kowtow to them and their interests

 

[arc of the universe]

put a Time Capsule in it to work with Time Machine.

 

[poematik13]

Home automation a mess today. Apple has an opportunity to clean-up the mess. Good!

It's a complete privacy nightmare. All those cameras and sensors and devices are recording tons and tons of data about you and your house and selling them to advertiseres or giving them to gov agencies for surveillance. Not to mention the fact that having the doors to your house unlockable if someone in russia or venezuella gets your account password lol

You have to be truly, truly stupid to have any "smart home" products in your house.

 

[Chungry]

In terms of wireless performance might as well get the current model if this report is true, it's not like the current model comes close to a performance ceiling of any sort. I'd certainly not trust an Apple-designed wifi chip. On the other hand, it could be a lesser, cheaper option (new form factor maybe?) leaving the current ones for an internal refresh. Nothing like making the customers beta test wireless chips but I guess they did that with the disaster that was putting Intel wireless chips in the phones a while ago.

 

[jz0309]

Why do we still bring up "gaming"?

Maybe because in an Internet forum people have opinions/wished/ideas they want to share?
WHY restrict that?

 

[alexhardaker]

Hopefully they decide to change the name of the Apple TV 4K hardware. Having hardware, software and a service with very similar names is stupid

 

[bozzykid]

Maybe because in an Internet forum people have opinions/wished/ideas they want to share?
WHY restrict that?

Because at some point you have to realize Apple doesn't care about gaming on the Apple TV. They never have and never will.

 

[Olde Dave]

It's a complete privacy nightmare. All those cameras and sensors and devices are recording tons and tons of data about you and your house and selling them to advertiseres or giving them to gov agencies for surveillance. Not to mention the fact that having the doors to your house unlockable if someone in russia or venezuella gets your account password lol

You have to be truly, truly stupid to have any "smart home" products in your house.

Wow! I didn't know that just because I like the convenience of being able to not have to carry a key with me, along with having the benefit of being able to let any friends or family in my home when I'm away to do something for me, that it made me "truly, truly stupid..."

Thank god that there are people like you on the internet to correct my stupidity so that I may learn to be a better person.

 

[turbineseaplane]

I like the convenience of being able to not have to carry a key with me, along with having the benefit of being able to let any friends or family in my home when I'm away to do something for me

Those are good uses of the tech, I think

Where I've drawn the line is cameras and audio listening devices (other than my Apple products anyhow)

 

[poematik13]

Wow! I didn't know that just because I like the convenience of being able to not have to carry a key with me, along with having the benefit of being able to let any friends or family in my home when I'm away to do something for me, that it made me "truly, truly stupid..."

Thank god that there are people like you on the internet to correct my stupidity so that I may learn to be a better person.

Ah yes, the classic "id rather have convenience over privacy" argument

You deserve neither.

 

[kingjames1970]

I'm in a bad mood with HomePods since one of the pair I have next to the TV failed to restart after a software update recently. No idea what to do with it as no luck getting it going again.

 

[turbineseaplane]

I'm in a bad mood with HomePods since one of the pair I have next to the TV failed to restart after a software update recently. No idea what to do with it as no luck getting it going again.

Whatever you do, don't reward Apple with yet another purchase of said product

The only way to get the message to a company like Apple is to hit them in the wallet

 

[Olde Dave]

And if you truly believe that you are using modern tech and don't have just as much of your personal business out there as the next average person, then I think you're kidding yourself.

If someone in Russia wants to hack my front door lock and let someone else in it really doesn't bother me. I think my three dogs would enjoy the opportunity to see how quickly someone they don't know could make it back outside our fence.

 

[turbineseaplane]

If someone in Russia wants to hack my front door lock and let someone else in it really doesn't bother me.

It doesn't? - not even a little bit?
😵‍💫

 

[Chungry]

Maybe because in an Internet forum people have opinions/wished/ideas they want to share?
WHY restrict that?

I think there is collective fatigue when games are brought up precisely because Apple will never get gaming, so it really adds nothing