Smart home hub

Apple is absolutely cooking because the latest report, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, says that there will be a potential Apple event on October the 13th or announcement with three new Apple smart home products coming.

Now, this is what we've been waiting for for a while, right? The main, really, I guess you'd say the centerpiece would be that rumored smart home hub that is this hybrid of some sort of a display with a speaker base that may be more like a display on a HomePod or maybe it's more OG iMac-like.

There'll be a new HomePod mini and a new Apple TV expected to be announced on October the 13th.

Now, we don't expect...

So the big takeaway from this October 13th rumored event is that This will be Apple's first foray into what I would say is taking the smart home more seriously.

I don't think, though, it could really take off until they have more of an ecosystem.

If they have this smart home hub, they need, sure, you can connect third-party devices.

I mean, Aqara is an incredible company.

This is the HomePad.

What's the HomePad? It's like a smart home hub with a speaker in it, a six-inch screen that floats around the base, just like the old iMac G4.

Tabletop version, one that mounts on the wall, built around Siri.

I'm so excited about that.

That's so silly.

He just decided to come out of the blue and say, like, they are, they do seem to be working on a higher end version of Smart Home Hub, featuring a nine-inch display, mounted and robotic arm that can swivel 360 degrees.

Mm-hmm.

So we all think G4, and then he just straight up tweeted a picture of the G4, and was like, "This is what it looks like."

But Mark outlines a few new things and he doubles down on the screen size.

So he says the Home Hub will have a six inch square display.

We have said before that this seems too small.

And it also seems like every time Mark talks about this product, the screen gets a little bit smaller, like from eight to seven.

You don't have to charge a separate thing or have a separate thing plugged in the whole time.

And the screen will be bigger.

So I love the idea of like an Apple Home Hub smart display thing.

but whenever i've pictured this separate from obviously what's been rumored it's much more of like an ipad form factor which is what the echo shows are like right they're more like 10 inch things or like 12 inch things and i think they even do like 19 inch ones because they're like huge so yeah i'm i'm skeptical i don't know maybe maybe there's like a something missing here in the communication because it just seems too small to be useful