Apple's Long-Rumored 'homeOS' Possibly Trademarked Ahead of WWDC

Apple's long-rumored "homeOS" operating strategy mightiness yet beryllium connected the horizon, based connected caller trademark enactment reviewed by MacRumors.


An evident ammunition institution known arsenic Home Operations Suite LLC has submitted trademark applications for "HOMEOS" successful a fistful of countries successful caller months. A precedence filing was made in Liechtenstein successful October 2024, and further filings were made in the United States, Argentina, Peru, and a fewer different countries successful April this year.

The trademark is present registered successful Liechtenstein, but the applications are inactive pending elsewhere.

The trademark filing successful the U.S. was archetypal spotted by Parker Ortolani and reported by 9to5Mac.

There is nary definitive impervious that Apple owns the ammunition company, but it has a past of creating limited-liability companies with generic names successful bid to discretely determination to support its intelligence spot related to unannounced products.

For example, successful May 2023, MacRumors uncovered a "VisionOS" trademark application filed by different secretive LLC ammunition company. A period later, astatine WWDC, Apple announced its Vision Pro headset and its visionOS operating system.

"homeOS" has been referenced successful assorted different places successful the past, including in Apple occupation listings, and successful tvOS 17.4 codification discovered by MacRumors. It could extremity up being the sanction of the bundle level that powers Apple's long-rumored astute location hub, which has been described arsenic a HomePod with a screen. The instrumentality volition reportedly person a quadrate iPad-like surface that tin beryllium attached to a talker basal oregon mounted connected a wall.

The hub would let users to power astute location accessories, marque FaceTime video calls, usage Apple's intercom diagnostic betwixt rooms successful a house, and more. It mightiness adjacent treble arsenic a location information strategy with an Apple-designed astute location camera.

In March, Apple proviso concatenation expert Ming-Chi Kuo said that the HomePod with a surface would enter wide accumulation successful the 3rd 4th of 2025, but it is unclear if it volition vessel to customers this twelvemonth oregon adjacent year. Apple delayed the personalized Siri features that are expected to beryllium astatine the halfway of the device, truthful possibly adjacent twelvemonth is simply a safer stake astatine this point. However, Apple could inactive supply an aboriginal preview of the location hub astatine immoderate constituent now, and its WWDC 2025 keynote conscionable truthful happens to beryllium coming up adjacent week. Stay tuned!
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