Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman today said that a new HomePod-like smart home hub with a 7-inch screen remains on track to launch in 2025.
A conceptual render of Apple’s rumored smart home hubGurman believes the home hub will be “Apple’s most significant release of the year,” as it represents the company’s “first step toward a bigger role in the smart home.” In his newsletter, he said the device will be like a “smaller and cheaper iPad” that lets users “control appliances, conduct FaceTime chats, and handle other tasks.”
Both a HomePod with a screen and an Apple home hub have been rumored by several sources, and it sounds like they are the same product.
Last month, for example, Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that a HomePod with a 6-to-7-inch display, an A18 chip, and…