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Tom Pritchard

Apple smart home hub — report says when the company's totally new product could launch

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We’ve been hearing reports about Apple’s iPad-inspired smart home hub for a while now, with the hopes it might arrive in the early part of 2025. But we might have to wait a little longer than we’d hoped, or so says Mark Gurman at Bloomberg.

Writing in his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman believes Apple could still be planning to unveil the hub at some point in March, but the product's release has been delayed thanks to the device’s software. Apparently the hub’s new operating system will be “heavily tied” to a feature called App intents — which isn’t set to arrive until iOS 18.4 or iOS 19.

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