Apple could launch an iPad-like good house show subsequent 12 months

Apple is getting ready to take a contemporary run on the good house that begins with a rumored good show that it might launch subsequent 12 months. That’s in line with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who writes in his Energy On e-newsletter right now that the show will use a brand new working system, referred to as homeOS, that’s based mostly on the Apple TV’s tvOS (very like the software program that drives HomePods now.)

Gurman stories that the show will run Apple apps like Calendar, Notes, and Residence, and that Apple has examined prototypes with magnets for wall-mounting. And it’ll assist Apple Intelligence — one thing Apple’s HomePods don’t presently do.

One other latest rumor urged {that a} “HomeAccessory” system coming quickly can be square-shaped, and that customers may be capable of use hand gestures from afar to manage it, as 9to5Mac wrote earlier this week. And MacRumors has reported on obvious code references to the system and homeOS.

A show like this sounds extra down-to-Earth than Apple’s robotic display screen thought. It is also much less fiddly and hopefully inexpensive than attempting to make use of an iPad as a devoted good house controller (I’ve tried; it’s not an awesome expertise!) We’ll discover out if and when it launches — which doesn’t sound terribly far off.