Apple’s smart home products are about to become a lot more futuristic.
This is according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who detailed the company’s plans for the smart home market over the weekend. Apple is reportedly working on a new operating system called homeOS, as well as two smart displays.
The more advanced of these will have a robotic limb, Gurman claims, and a large, “iPad-like” display. It might cost $1,000 or more, and it probably won’t be ready very soon.
But Apple is also reportedly working on a cheaper smart home display, which won’t have the robotic arm, and will be intended mainly for controlling home appliances and using FaceTime. That one might arrive as early as 2025.
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Ultimately, the cheaper display might be a sort of a companion to the more advanced device, though details on how this could work are scarce.
Of course, these devices will run Apple Intelligence, as Apple’s idea is to bring …