Apple Homeview, Apple TV 4K, Apple HomePod mini 2 unveiled: Price, features, preorder and launch dates, all about Apple Welcome Home event

Apple Homeview was officially unveiled today. Apple shows a range of products including, 7 inch Liquid Retina display, Apple TV 4K, HomePod mini 2 as part of "Welcome Home Product". Apple Inc share price was up by nearly 5 per cent at USD 346 per stock.

Apple HomeView will be available from November 13. The brand new gadget has 7 inch Liquid Retina display, Siri AI with Apple Intelligence, face recognition for personalized experiences, FaceTime support, smart home controls, speaker base or wall mounted design. It is available in Silver, Starlight, Rose Pink and Space Gray.

Apple HomeView price starts at $299. Pre orders start today.


Apple TV 4K

Apple has officially announced the new Apple TV 4K, including A19 chip, Siri AI support, built in far field microphones for hands free Siri, new Siri Remote with Precision Finding, Wi Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6. It has 128GB of storage and Gigabit Ethernet.

Price starts at $299 and pre-orders start today. Apple TV 4K will be launched on November 13.

Apple HomePod Mini 2

Apple has officially announced the HomePod mini 2 which will be launched on October 30. Apple HomePod mini 2 has new S10 chip, Siri AI support, new Sound Glow feature that reacts to music, four HomePod minis can create surround sound with Apple TV 4K.

Apple HomePod mini 2 works as a Mac speaker and will be available in Pink, Green, Blue, White and Midnight. The price starts at $149.

Apple is launching these products as it tries to fend off competition from rivals, including traditional competitors like Amazon.com, which has invested heavily in its Echo speakers and Ring doorbells and last week launched premium tablets, as well as newer AI upstarts like OpenAI that have hardware ambitions of their own.

Investors are looking more closely at Apple's hardware sales for growth as the company's services revenue has come under regulatory pressure. The launches also coincide with growing worries that connected devices, including refrigerators and smart TVs, could be vulnerable to hackers.

Apple's HomeView launch was accompanied by updates to its HomePod smart speaker and Apple TV devices. It also introduced a range of accessories, including doorbells, cameras and thermostats, made by LG and Schneider Electric and designed with help from Apple.

The company also announced a series of devices like cameras and smart doorbells from other manufacturers designed to be part of its home ecosystem.

The HomeView device will not be sold in the European Union, because Siri AI remains unavailable there due to EU regulations, Apple said.

Apple first released its Home app to control smart gadgets in 2016, with HomePod smart speakers following in 2018, but those offerings are competing with Alphabet's Google Home speakers and Amazon's Echo line. Analysts said two major hurdles for Apple were making its devices work with a variety of third-party gadgets and the limited ability of Siri to give useful answers.

Apple this summer upgraded Siri's capabilities with assistance from Google, but the process of wiring a smart home is still too difficult for many Apple consumers to see a benefit, said Bob O'Donnell, chief analyst at TECHnalysis Research.