New Apple TV and HomePod Mini Launching in 2025

Apple plans to refresh both the Apple TV and the HomePod mini in 2025 as part of a major push into refreshing its smart home product offerings, reports Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

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In a report on an upcoming Apple-designed Bluetooth and Wi-Fi chip, Gurman says that the chip will be introduced in a new ‌Apple TV‌ and ‌HomePod mini‌ that are "scheduled" for 2025. While there is no exact timeline included, Gurman separately mentions that the chip will be included in iPhones "later next year," which suggests it will come to the ‌HomePod mini‌ and the ‌Apple TV‌ before the September timeframe.

The component will support Wi-Fi 6E, though Apple may not be able to match all of Broadcom's chip capabilities with the first-generation in-house Wi-Fi chip.

Adopting a custom-designed Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip will allow Apple's upcoming smart home devices to work better together and perhaps "synchronize data more quickly."

Apple is also working on a home hub "Command Center" that's set to come out in 2025, but it's not clear if that device will use the custom chip. The Command Center will have a 6-inch display with a built-in speaker and camera, and it will be able to control smart home devices, make video calls, and more.

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Top Rated Comments

turbineseaplane Avatar
19 weeks ago
Why do we still bring up "gaming"?

Apple has no interest in being a good supportive partner for third party gaming companies, which is what's needed for that to flourish

It's not a hardware power issue -- it's a developer relations, support and cooperation issue

Apple is horrific at that, as they are so far up their own rear-end thinking that everyone should kowtow to them and their interests
Score: 21 Votes (Like | Disagree)
kunze50 Avatar
19 weeks ago
"I found some web results. I can show them if you ask again from your iPhone"
Score: 19 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Olde Dave Avatar
19 weeks ago

It's a complete privacy nightmare. All those cameras and sensors and devices are recording tons and tons of data about you and your house and selling them to advertiseres or giving them to gov agencies for surveillance. Not to mention the fact that having the doors to your house unlockable if someone in russia or venezuella gets your account password lol

You have to be truly, truly stupid to have any "smart home" products in your house.
Wow! I didn't know that just because I like the convenience of being able to not have to carry a key with me, along with having the benefit of being able to let any friends or family in my home when I'm away to do something for me, that it made me "truly, truly stupid..."

Thank god that there are people like you on the internet to correct my stupidity so that I may learn to be a better person.
Score: 18 Votes (Like | Disagree)
alexhardaker Avatar
19 weeks ago
Hopefully they decide to change the name of the Apple TV 4K hardware. Having hardware, software and a service with very similar names is stupid
Score: 17 Votes (Like | Disagree)
arc of the universe Avatar
19 weeks ago
put a Time Capsule in it to work with Time Machine.
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
socialwill Avatar
19 weeks ago
Would be nice to see an Apple TV Pro device with support for gaming, if Apple ever wanted to push into this area.
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)