Apple's next streaming box is getting its first real brain transplant since 2022 — and the twist nobody saw coming: the Siri Remote is finally getting a built-in speaker and mic, so Find My can ring it out of your couch cushions. Yes, the company that puts chips in everything just admitted the remote vanishes on purpose.
That's the box trading its dusty 2022-era A15 for an A19 — the same silicon as the iPhone 17 — per Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Four years on one chip in gadget time is basically geology.
The new Apple TV lands October 30th alongside the HomePod mini 2, which explains the timing: Apple's living-room refresh is arriving one white plastic puck at a time.
A decade of remotes disappearing into furniture, and Apple finally noticed. The full sixty-second breakdown:
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Source: MacRumors
