Apple is Making a Tabletop Robotic Home Device 🤔

Apple is moving forward with its project to develop a tabletop robotic device, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

The device would feature a large iPad-like display mounted on a "thin robotic arm" that would allow the display to tilt and up and down and rotate a full 360º, and it would serve as a "smart home command center," a videoconferencing machine such as for FaceTime calls, and a home security monitoring tool.

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[perpetualcollapse]

Mark G just throws everything at the wall and hopes something sticks. 😂 Most of his “predictions” haven’t come to light in the past few years.

[HomesteadAce]

Apple should make a gimbal with magsafe so you can connect an iPhone or iPad. With a built-in tripod so you can set it on a desk or take it to go with your iPhone.

[appledolphin]

I need this, and I'll put it next to my iMac G4.

[tocatlian]

Not for me. But I’d love an iPhone Flip.

[mikeshafer]

Actually super cool. I would have one or two of these in my house, especially if I could have an ongoing conversation with it like I should be able to with Apple Intelligence.

[pator]

With magsafe magnets and charging, you can put compatible iphones and ipads on it... or a basic screen duplicating the iphone screen, thats a new function from ios18...

[UnknownIdaho]

Any kind of smarthome hub not owned by an advertising/ sales marketing company who uses all your date as a product for its clients would be awesome.

[andresmareli]

Well it looks like a stand with a speaker for the iPad.
May be easier just to make that instead of a full blown new device that most likely no one needs.

[bennym]

Still want my Or 27" M4 Or M4 Mac Studio next year only viable option.

[jfroines]

Sounds like it should just be an accessory that you stick an iPad onto.

[johndeere]

It’s going to look like the Pixar “ bouncing lamp”

[hayleyharrison]

Noooo just make a dock and bring standby mode to the iPad, it’s not that hard Apple!!

[MacDiggity]

I have a device that makes facetime calls. It's called my iPhone. What's the use-case here, everyone crowd around a likely already cluttered space to speak into a screen? Isn't this the same level of inconvenience as talking into a landline phone that has a cord and a stationary position attached to a wall?

[seasonofbrad]

As deep as I am into the Apple echo system, I would love for them to take another crack at smart home devices. The home pod is so half baked IMO.

[bennym]

Apple makes enough $$$, they could put more RAM in on base levels at least 16 or 36.

[MegaBushdoctor]

So basically an expensive Amazon show 10...

[celebrityrog]

Believing Mark or Jon Prosser about anything Apple lately is like entering a fantasy world of what they want Apple to make not what Apple is making.

[protector]

I would love a removable tablet, but I have a feeling that would be too expensive

[AON_.]

It’s appealing but that $1000 price tag. 🤔

[Justwannadriveit]

Is this what the rumor with richtech robotics is about?!?!