Apple will ship its $299 HomeView hub on Nov. 13, with Siri AI as the selling point. The Wearables, Home and Accessories line it joins reported $7.88 billion in the June quarter, about 7% of revenue, so the hub is a small bet beside the iPhone.
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Apple prices HomeView $120 above Echo Show 8 for twice the RAM
HomeView, Apple's $300 hub, has twice the RAM of Amazon's $180 Echo Show 8 and a smaller 7-inch screen. The extra $120 buys silicon and memory, while Pocket-lint's spec list gives the Echo the larger display and a Zigbee radio.
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Apple's $299 HomeView is a new Home hub with Thread built in
Apple opens pre-orders for the $299 HomeView, a 7-inch square-screen smart display in stand and wall-mounted versions. The Ambient says it acts as a hub for HomeKit and Matter devices, with Thread built in and no app store at launch.
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Apple plans three smart home devices for October, all built around Siri AI, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. That puts a Siri that BGR says needed Google's Gemini models to ship between every household and the home integrations it uses.
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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple's smart home hub has a square 6-inch display, no battery and no buttons, in countertop and wall-mounted versions. HomeKit teams should plan for a shared screen that stays at its outlet and serves whoever walks up.
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References to Faces, a Face Gallery and HomeAccessory_wall put a display-bearing HomePod in code Apple shipped itself. That resets the floor for anyone building home hubs.
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Apple's first folding iPhone starts at $1,999 and unlocks with a side-button Touch ID sensor instead of Face ID. Keynote demos showed a drag docking a second app beside the first. App teams inherit that part.
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