Sunday October 11, 2026 12:56 pm PDT by Joe Rossignol
Just two days before Apple's "Welcome home" experience in New York, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has leaked several details about the new products set to be unveiled, including an all-new smart home hub, a HomePod mini 2, and a new Apple TV 4K.
Here is an all-in-one summary of the details shared by Gurman:Apple's home hub with a touch-enabled display will be named HomeView, seemingly confirming a ...
Apple today announced the "HomeView," an all-new kind of smart home hub featuring a 7-inch Liquid Retina display and Siri AI.
Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing Greg Joswiak said:
Apple HomeView is designed to be shared by everyone in the home yet feel completely personal to each user. It recognizes your face to shift from a household screen to your own experience,...
Tuesday October 13, 2026 9:39 am PDT by Joe Rossignol
MacRumors was first to reveal the name "HomeView" last week, after discovering a trademark filing from a secretive shell company that we correctly suspected was linked to Apple.
Apple was likely behind a "homeOS" trademark filing as well, but the company ultimately decided to stick with generic "HomeView software" naming, just like it refers to the HomePod's operating system as "HomePod...
I want to hear you explain why people are so wrong if they like Spotify, and have no problems with it.
He's too busy posting glib 1-liners in every single thread to have time.
Back to the article: I appreciate seeing an example of this in action. CarPlay "casting" looks to be a really creative and smart solution to the app problem of the HomeView, and makes it a far more interesting device than its default state. I just hope Apple is flexible in quickly approving other apps and classes of apps to be used this way. Using the CarPlay entitlement is a little awkward. There's lots of apps that would be a natural fit for the HomeView but would make no sense in a car (like recipe apps: Paprika, etc.)
