Five futures for Apple’s HomeScreenPod
Apple’s smart home efforts need a smart display. If I have to hear Siri say, “I found some web results; I can show them if you ask again from your iPhone,” one more time, I may throw a HomePod out the window.
While smart displays — the more expensive sibling to smart speakers — haven’t lived up to their potential, they can be useful and are a missing piece in Apple’s smart home, which the company has largely avoided creating products for — so far, just a couple of smart speakers and a bit of help from the Apple TV.
An Apple smart display with a touch-screen display, a dedicated Apple Home control panel, a smarter Siri, and the chops to be an Apple Home hub supporting Thread and Matter is something I’d put in my smart home.
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