Apple HomePod Mini 2 Surprise Cancellation Leaks In New Report - Forbes

This week, Apple launched a caller HomePod, wittily called HomePod 2^nd Generation. But contrary to erstwhile reports, rumors of a caller HomePod mini 2^nd Generation are incorrect.

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That’s according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman successful his latest Power On newsletter, which contiguous says nary specified merchandise is successful development, helium believes.

This is absorbing due to the fact that arsenic precocious arsenic past August, Gurman himself said that helium thought Apple was considering launching an updated HomePod mini. On the different hand, astatine that constituent Gurman made nary notation of a caller regular HomePod—something helium predicted was coming conscionable a fewer days agone and which helium describes successful his newsletter arsenic being portion of “Apple’s January surprise”.

Gurman’s statement is that determination are nary caller features successful the larger HomePod which aren’t recovered successful the smaller one. At slightest successful presumption of function. It’s highly apt that the caller HomePod volition proceed to person outstanding audio. Certainly the archetypal HomePod sounded richer and fuller than the HomePod mini does.

But it’s existent that the archetypal HomePod lacked immoderate sensors recovered successful the mini, specified arsenic a U1 ultra wideband spot and a somesthesia and humidity sensor. The mini besides had a show which lit up from borderline to borderline which the archetypal HomePod did not. All those shortcomings person been addressed successful the second-gen HomePod.

However, determination person not been immoderate caller features and sensors included successful the larger HomePod that were not successful the mini, suggesting that Apple regards the mini to beryllium arsenic functionally susceptible arsenic it needs to be, fixed there’s nary caller sensor added successful the bigger device. Unless there’s thing wrong that hasn’t been announced yet, but that doesn’t look that likely.

As Gurman says, this means determination “isn’t an evident crushed to update the [HomePod mini].

“Sure,” helium goes on, “it would beryllium bully to get much colors, a cheaper price, and amended dependable and microphones, but the existent improvements astir apt request to beryllium made connected the backmost extremity — with Siri and app integration.”

I don’t deliberation we tin regularisation retired caller colors astatine this stage: determination are lone 3 agleam shades, blue, orangish and yellow, successful summation to the much humdrum achromatic and abstraction grey HomePod mini options. And adding colors is thing Apple likes to bash with products that are already connected sale.

But I’d hold that the capabilities of the mini are beauteous overmuch connected par with the caller larger HomePod, isolated from the audio quality.

I find it improbable Apple would privation to enactment the mini up of the larger HomePod truthful soon aft the merchandise of the second-gen exemplary owed successful the adjacent fewer days.

Assuming the adjacent HomePod sounds arsenic awesome arsenic the first, and Apple says it sounds better, past Apple volition proceed to person the best-sounding astute talker connected the market.

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