Another Apple launch event has come and gone with no announcement of a Dolby Atmos soundbar. It's not that such a thing was rumoured ahead of the launch, because it wasn't – it's that it seems such an obvious product for the company to produce that I'm baffled each time an Apple soundbar isn't announced.
The company already has all of the ingredients. Combine an Apple TV 4K with two HomePod 2s, and you've got a setup that performs much like a soundbar – and a smart one at that – but the form factor is less convenient and many people are put off by the need to buy and set up three separate components.
