Apple’s smart home ambitions will hit the market next year, and it seems they will boot an entirely new OS with Apple Intelligence leading the charge.
Apple has reportedly been working on a new kind of display-focused smart home device for a while now, and it seems it will arrive as early as next year. Now, Bloomberg reports that Apple is eyeing not one, but two such devices across different price points and that they will mark the era of a new AI-first software approach.
Codenamed J595, this one is a high-end machine that features a large iPad-inspired screen and robotic limbs. The other one, which internally goes by the J490 identifier, is more like a conventional smart display — think a screen slapped on a speaker base – that would predominantly serve as a FaceTime machine and smart home control hub.
Unlike the approach that Apple took with the Vision Pro, which was all about flexing the engineering muscles and imagining an entirely new approach to computing, the company’s foray into the field of smart display will likely start at the lower end of the price spectrum, or specifically, the device codenamed J490.
