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Apple Unveils 12 Home Products at Once, Including HomeView; Siri AI to Control the Whole House

36氪Oct 14, 20261 min read

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Apple last night unveiled four home product lines: the HomeView smart home hub with a screen, the latest Apple TV 4K, the new HomePod mini 2, and the Home Collection smart home accessories. HomeView and Apple TV 4K both feature Siri AI, and the HomePod mini received its first update in six years. In mainland China, the HomePod mini 2 goes on sale on October 30 for 1,099 yuan.

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Apple's launch of HomeView, an Siri AI-powered smart home hub, signals a push to make the home the next major arena for on-device AI, leveraging its privacy-focused architecture and tight hardware-software integration. The product line, including the first HomePod mini update in six years and co-designed Home Collection devices with LG and Schneider Electric, suggests Apple is building an ecosystem moat around AI-driven household control. For Chinese competitors such as Xiaomi, Huawei, and Alibaba, this raises the bar for local AI capability and cross-device integration, especially given the limited Siri AI rollout in mainland China.

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HomeView features the A18 chip and a 7-inch Liquid Retina display, and can be controlled by voice to play music, make FaceTime calls, and monitor the home. Its screen brightness adapts to ambient light, ranging from 500 nits down to 0.3 nits, and the amount of information shown changes with the viewer's distance. It recognizes up to six people via face recognition and loads each family member's personal home screen, with personal content visible only to that user. Apple TV 4K adopts the A19 chip, boosting CPU performance by up to 50% and GPU performance by up to 2x, and adds a dedicated AV1 decoder for higher-quality streaming at lower bandwidth. It has 128GB of storage and a full-screen Siri AI interface for searching and discovering movies and TV shows. HomePod mini 2 uses the S10 chip, stands 8.43 cm tall, and supports the 'Sound Glow' light effect. It can identify six users by voice and will gain Siri AI support in a future update. Home Collection comprises nine smart home accessories co-designed with LG and Schneider Electric, including the LG video doorbell, floodlight camera, indoor and outdoor cameras, smart lock, thermostats, temperature sensor, and the Schneider Home thermostat and room sensor. US prices are $299 for HomeView and Apple TV 4K, and $149 for HomePod mini 2.

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