Apple just booked an event — and for once, the star isn't a phone. On October 13, Apple is expected to unveil a smart home hub with a screen, a new HomePod mini, and an updated Apple TV, with Siri AI sitting at the core of all three. An entire keynote about your house. Bold.
The smart home hub is the one to watch: it's Apple's first genuinely new category in years, and it's been "long-awaited" since roughly forever. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says all three devices land at the event, and press invites should hit inboxes any day now.
The invitation, essentially: Apple's event machine is spinning back up, and this time the products live in your living room.
The HomePod mini gets the Siri AI treatment — historically the cheapest doorway into whatever Apple's planning.
Best part? New CEO John Ternus apparently agrees with John Gruber: a product this big deserves a real keynote, not a press-release cop-out. The Gruber standard holds.
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Apple's October 13 smart home event — TechMinute
Source: 9to5Mac
