Apple could be ready to launch a new HomePod for later this year as indicated by Ming Chi Kuo, although it also indicates the possibility that it will be delayed until early 2023.
It's been over a year now since Apple killed off the original HomePod, leaving us with just the HomePod mini. A company that always boasts of its care for sound and music abandoned its top product in this category and did so without announcing its successor. And a year later we are still without a replacement, although the wait may soon come to an end. As Ming Chi Kuo has just published, Apple could have a new HomePod ready by the end of this year.
https://twitter.com/mingchikuo/status/1527678477830598657
Apple could release a new version of the HomePod in Q2022 2023 or QXNUMX XNUMX, and it probably won't include much innovation when it comes to hardware design. Smart speakers are certainly an essential part of the home ecosystem, but I think Apple is still thinking about how to succeed in this market.
Kuo talks about HomePod, so everything suggests a new version of the original HomePod, the largest and the one with superior sound quality, and just the one that many of us miss the most. Apple's smart speaker was never a bestseller, with a price well above that of other smart speakers but also with a sound quality far superior to most. The experience with the HomePod mini has been much more successful in terms of sales figures, and this may have given Apple the clue for success with a larger and better quality model. What we should not expect is that it is the rumored hybrid between HomePod and Apple TV, for which it will still be a long time before its announcement, if it ever sees the light of day.