All right, so Apple had a mini Home event today... where they refreshed their Home lineup with... a new HomePod mini 2, which has some new colors and a new glowing display at the top that matches your music's album art, a new Apple TV 4K... that has far-field mics and a new remote with speakers so you can always ask Siri to find it, clever, and a new device to tie the Home all together called... HomeView... They just, they never name it... what you think they're gonna name it.
But yeah, this was a real hole in their ecosystem for a while, and if Apple wants to pull people from... the Amazon and Google Home ecosystems... they needed something like this.
Now that I've spent some time with it though, and I've digested everything, I actually don't think this first... offering... is very convincing.
So welcome to your hands-on... and first look and everything you need to know or might be wondering about this... Apple... HomeView.
And I'm gonna try to make it quick 'cause I just have a few key thoughts... on this thing.
So the basic product... is this is a display... that lives somewhere in your house as a dashboard or a hub... for your smart home.
Kind of the equivalent of like the Google Nest Hub Max... or the Amazon Echo Hub... So it serves as a controller or a connector for all of the other pieces of your smart home tech.
So your thermostats, your doorbells, your security cameras, et cetera.
So HomeView has a 7-inch square touchscreen sitting in this color-matching base.
It has speakers in it and a camera at the top, and the display articulates up and down a little bit on this little arm... and it's mostly made of metal.
