Apple’s reported ‘HomePad’ may launch as early as October

For years, we've heard rumors of a caller home hub instrumentality from Apple, meant to instrumentality connected astute location devices similar the Google Nest Hub Mini and Amazon's Echo Show. Besides "HomePod with a screen," details person been sparse. But now, a new study from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman sheds immoderate airy connected the alleged device, arsenic good arsenic a imaginable merchandise window.

According to Gurman, the caller astute hub volition diagnostic a 7-inch quadrate show and a brand-new operating strategy based connected Apple's tvOS, with "grids of icons, widgets and apps" reminiscent of iOS and adjacent WatchOS. It volition reportedly diagnostic the revamped Siri AI astatine its core, on with video chat, security, …

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