smart display

There is a roadmap piece going around saying Apple has a stack of home products lined up, an Apple TV, a HomePod and some kind of smart display, and that the reason we have been waiting is Siri rather than hardware. It is a pipeline story, not a spec sheet, so I am not going to repeat numbers...

Gurman's latest has Apple shipping a small square smart display, roughly seven inches, somewhere between October 2026 and early next year. Two variants apparently. Camera for video calls plus presence detection and user recognition, so the panel changes what it shows depending on who walks up to...