Apple Retail Stores Preparing for New Home Product Launches

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Apple is reorganizing parts of its brick-and-mortar stores this autumn to marque country for caller location products.


Writing successful his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman says the teams liable for store layouts are preparing changes to the "Avenues," oregon the perimeter walls successful Apple's newer stores, wherever accessories similar HomePod, Apple TV, AirPods, and Beats are displayed alongside third-party accessories.

The enactment is said to impact rearranging sections of the Avenues and adding accessory bays for upcoming caller devices.

Apple is already believed to person an upgraded Apple TV and a caller HomePod mini coming up. Gurman said successful July that some were astir ready, with faster chips for Siri AI but nary large plan changes. Rumors bespeak an A17 Pro spot oregon amended successful the caller Apple TV, and an S9-series chip, improved sound, and a red finish for the HomePod mini, the existent mentation of which is present implicit 2,000 days old.

All of that being said, Gurman says the standard of the retail changes suggests prep-work for the motorboat of its long-awaited location hub with a show (aka the rumored HomePod with Display oregon "HomePad").

Gurman reported last month that the astute location hub volition get astatine immoderate constituent betwixt October and aboriginal adjacent year. It's expected to person a 7-inch quadrate display, and volition beryllium sold with either a tabletop basal oregon a partition mount. There's besides said to beryllium an all-new operating strategy built astir tvOS with Siri AI powering the device.

Code strings uncovered successful macOS Tahoe 26.7 past week suggest the location surface volition usage a Widget Gallery akin to the iPhone's Lock Screen customization options. The codification besides indicates that the caller device's location surface could person galore of the aforesaid options for icons, widgets, and timepiece faces, with widgets from a linked iPhone suggested automatically.

Apple volition request a dedicated abstraction wherever customers tin spot however the hub works, what its intent is, and however it fits into the wider location setup, Gurman reports.
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