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Apple’s smart home tablet, tipped for an early 2025 release, will resemble a small iPad, it is claims.
As we reported last week,Apple is working on a smart home “wall tablet"that it plans to launch in early 2025. However, there are now more details about what it’ll potentially do, and why it could be important.
The device is said to be the first of a series of smart home devicesAppleis reportedly working on, including a home hub that can move courtesy of a robotic arm and possibly even an Apple-branded TV. That last one is a very big maybe, but according to Bloomberg’sMark GurmanApple is seriously considering it.
Here’s what we think we know.
Apple’s home tablet could finally deliver on Apple’s promises
He claims that the tablet-style device will have a non-removable rechargeable battery, a built-in FaceTime camera and speakers, and it’ll have sensors that enable it to detect your distance from the screen. You’ll be able to stick it on your wall, or buy a base with additional speakers to turn it into a desktop or bedside device.
Apple apparently imagines “people FaceTiming each other from different rooms”, using the tablet to pull up security camera footage, controlling their smart home kit and controlling the music on their HomePod speakers. It won’t have its own App Store but it will have Siri and most likely Apple Intelligence too.
It sounds like a vast improvement over Apple’s current smart home efforts, and with Apple on board with Matter, the smart home interoperability standard, the HomeKit platform is less of a walled garden than it used to be.
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However, if Apple doesn’t price this really aggressively it could have difficulty in getting people interested in an iPad-esque device that doesn’t do as much as an iPad does.
It’s definitely one to keep an eye on, though.
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