One of the projects in development supposedly looks like a HomePod with a touch-screen, resembling an iPad on a robotic arm that can move and twist to face the person in the room. In April, Bloomberg reported that Apple was working on ambitious smart home products including a combo set-top box that would compete with the likes of the Roku Streambar. It could also be a sneak peek at something larger in scope, perhaps a new OS that will run on future as-yet-unannounced Apple hardware. It is possible that internally this version of tvOS is referred to as ‘homeOS’ and this detail innocently leaked out into Apple’s job listing copy. To customers, software updates for the HomePod are simply referred to as generic software updates. This suggests it will have a customer-facing presence at some point in the future.Īs reported by 9to5Mac last year, the HomePod and HomePod mini runs a variant of tvOS. The ‘homeOS’ name is stylised to match Apple’s other platform naming, like iOS, tvOS and macOS with a lowercase letter and no space between the prefix and the ‘OS’ suffix. Recent Apple product launches in this arena have been somewhat disappointing, such as the discontinuation of the larger HomePod speaker and the release of a very minor Apple TV 4K update. The finding is another data point to join the pile of rumors surrounding Apple’s interest in the smart home. Update: The job listing has been updated to remove the homeOS mention and replace it with references to tvOS and HomePod instead.Īn intriguing reference to a previously unknown Apple software platform name, homeOS, has been spotted in a company job listing.
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