After a burst of announcements in recent weeks, we wonder if Apple had left tips in its round before WWDC in June, including its “Homepad” center at smart home that would have been launched in the spring. According to a new report, we will have to wait a little longer.
Citing his own report from December which said that Homepod with Apple display would arrive in the first quarter of 2025, Ming-Chi Kuo now plans that he will arrive in the third quarter due to “software development problems”. This is not a surprise because we have heard many rumors about Apple's difficulties in providing Apple intelligence features, including the late -generation Siri's delay later in the year.
Apple Intelligence should play a major role in Smart Home Hub from Apple. Although the device will have a touch screen, it would be powered by a voice like a homepod. Apple envisages the device as a stationary center of a house, either hung on a wall, or sitting on a platform. To do this, Siri and Apple Intelligence will have to be without a bug.
In addition, said Kuo, Apple wants to make sure that the new interface “alignments with the new updates of the operating system (like iOS 19) to deploy on other devices in 2:25”. A rumor of Mark Gurman earlier this week says that iOS 19 will offer “one of the most dramatic software revisions in business history”, which could include visionos, such as circular icons.
Kuo says that visual alignment is “essential to transparently integrate new products into Apple's ecosystem”. It seems that Apple uses the following generations of its operating systems to introduce a rationalized interface with a similar user interface on all devices.
Apple should also launch a new iPhone design in September with the first new model from the iPhone 14 Plus in 2022. With an iOS iOS redesigned and a new homepod with a screen, the fall of Apple could be very, very exciting.
