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Will the HomeView be Apple’s first smart home success?

Will the HomeView be Apple’s first smart home success?

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Apple will announce a new smart home hub on Tuesday called the HomeView, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen There have been multiple reports that Apple was working on a new smart home product, but now it seems the product has a name and a launch date. Gurman described the HomeView as a Siri-powered device with a display and an A18 chip, allowing customers to control their other smart home devices. The HomeView will reportedly be available in two models — one designed for countertops and the other to be mounted on walls.  This would be Apple’s most serious bet on the smart home to date, after it failed to get much traction for its HomeKit software framework or its HomePod smart speaker.  Gurman reports that on Tuesday, Apple will also be unveiling updated versions of two other home devices, namely the Apple TV set-top box and the HomePod mini. Earlier this week, he said that Apple plans to announce a partnership with LG to create a smart …

New Apple TV 4K, HomeView, and HomePod Mini: 16 Details Just Leaked

New Apple TV 4K, HomeView, and HomePod Mini: 16 Details Just Leaked

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Just two days before Apple’s “Welcome home” experience in New York, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman has leaked several details about the new products set to be unveiled, including an all-new smart home hub, a HomePod mini 2, and a new Apple TV 4K. Here is an all-in-one summary of the details shared by Gurman: Apple’s home hub with a touch-enabled display will be named HomeView, seemingly confirming a trademark filing discovered by MacRumors. HomeView is equipped with an A18 chip, which has 8GB of RAM in iPhones. HomeView will support Siri AI for voice control. HomeView will be available in a tabletop version with a speaker base made of metal, as well as a wall-mounted version with a flat, square wall plate. The tabletop HomeView will offer “better sound quality” than the HomePod mini. The tabletop HomeView will be available in four finishes: Gray, Silver, Starlight, and Rose. The wall-mounted version will be limited to Gray and Silver. HomeView will be unveiled this Tuesday, October 13, but the device is apparently not launching until “around mid-November.” …

New Apple Smart Home Hub Reportedly Called HomeView and Will Ship in November

New Apple Smart Home Hub Reportedly Called HomeView and Will Ship in November

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The Apple smart home device that the company is expected to announce on Tuesday is called HomeView and will ship to consumers in November, according to a report Sunday by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The device, which will feature a display and be powered by an A18 chip, will act as a Siri command center for an Apple-powered smart home, Gurman reported. The HomeView will come in two versions: a countertop model with a metal speaker base and a wall-mounted version with a flat, square base. Apple didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. For more than a year, Apple has been rumored to be readying a Siri-focused smart display hub for the home, sometimes referred to as a HomePad, though we don’t know for sure that’ll be the name. This display would focus heavily on Siri AI and compete with products like Amazon’s Echo Show and the Google Nest Hub line by acting as a HomeKit hub. Alongside the HomeView, Apple is expected to unveil a new Apple TV set-top box powered by an A19 …

Apple Potentially Behind ‘HomeView’ Trademark Filed Alongside ‘homeOS’ Last Year

Apple Potentially Behind ‘HomeView’ Trademark Filed Alongside ‘homeOS’ Last Year

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Apple potentially used a shell company named Home Services LLC to secretly file for a “HomeView” trademark in the U.S. and various other countries last year, around the same time that another shell company named Home Operations Suite LLC that also might be linked to Apple filed for a “homeOS” trademark. Apple reportedly plans to unveil an all-new smart home hub during its “Welcome home” launch on Tuesday, October 13. Will the device be named HomeView, and will its all-new operating system be named homeOS? We shall soon find out. Apple has a history of using shell companies to secretly file trademarks related to unannounced hardware and software. For example, prior to the Apple Vision Pro launching in 2023, a shell company that was ultimately connected to Apple filed a trademark for “visionOS,” which ended up being the name of the Vision Pro’s operating system. However, Apple was also behind a trademark for an “xrOS” name that it ultimately abandoned in favor of visionOS, so trademark filings do not always correspond with Apple’s final branding …