Apple Considered Adding a Camera to the HomePod Years Ago

Apple considered launching a HomePod with a camera and further sensors years earlier the upcoming "HomePad" device, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports.


In a detailed profile of Apple's hardware engineering main John Ternus, Gurman revealed that Apple considered adding a camera and a much precocious array of sensors to the archetypal ‌HomePod‌, which was announced successful 2017. Ternus seemingly believed that the further capabilities would propulsion up improvement costs and decided to cancel the features arsenic a result.

Ternus was said to beryllium reluctant to put profoundly successful astute location devices erstwhile the archetypal starring products from Amazon and Google arrived connected the marketplace astir a decennary ago. He subsequently took "some responsibility" for Apple falling down successful the astute location category.

Now, Ternus is starring Apple's efforts to re-establish itself successful the astute location marketplace with 3 caller products, including an AI-powered astute location hub with facial designation (J490), a tiny sensor for managing location information (J450), and a robotic instrumentality (J595). The astute location hub, dubbed "HomePad" successful immoderate reports, is expected to motorboat successful the fall of 2026.
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