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Alistair Charlton

Is Apple’s smart home display just wishful thinking?

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Smart Home Week

This article is part of TechRadar's Smart Home Week 2024, where we're giving you all the latest news, tips and tricks to help you make the smart home of your dreams. 

Back in 2010, Steve Jobs described the Apple TV set-top box as “a hobby” for a company that instead saw its greatest successes with the iPod, iPhone and Mac. The first-generation iPad hadn’t even gone on sale at that point, and the idea of a streaming service like Apple TV+, or any form of Siri-controlled smart home, was entirely off the table. Siri didn’t even arrive until the following year.

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