Agreed. What I want in a future HomePod is a chip and enough RAM for Apple Intelligence integration with Siri and ChatGPT (and hopefully eventually other chat bots like Google’s Gemini, etc.) for now and Apple’s eventual own LLM enabled Siri due with iOS 19 in 2025-2026.
The Siri and ChatGPT integration that I’ve been using in the 18.2 beta is good enough that if Apple can deliver a device capable of that and with enough juice to run their LLM Siri implementation when that’s ready (or stick with the ChatPT, Gemini or whatever other AI Chatbots they allow iOS to integrate with if you prefer that to Apple’s own implementation) that would be the kind of HomePod I’d be interested in buying.
I could see maybe owning one with a display for the main floor and/or basement to control our smart lights and allow for music playback through our HomePods via a GUI if we have guests without iPhones but one or maybe two is all I’d ever care to own.
Siri is good enough as is now for us to control the lights but it can be confusing for guests who don’t know what we’ve named them to get Siri to turn them on or off and/or change their colors. We don’t use Siri to play music often because it’s still too prone to errors. We tend to use the Music app and AirPlay instead. So again, it would be a nice addition for guests and perhaps for us as well from time to time so we didn’t always need to have our phones handy for controlling the lights or playing music when we’re home but I’d much prefer the HomePod as is with the processing power and ram to handle the forthcoming Siri improvements.
