Apple’s Mythical ‘HomePad’ May Finally Be Nigh
THE SO WHAT
A HomePad-style hub would turn the living room into a persistent multimodal endpoint—screen, speakers, sensors—for Apple's assistant stack. For consumer services and device makers, that means planning now for a world where the primary interface to the home is a stationary agent, not a phone.
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