{"rewrite":{"id":"r_574ecb4f8b5bcf87aea4dd8e","clusterId":"c_b687f0a8b5a79c9d17033b97","slug":"apple-announces-299-homeview-smart-display","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Apple Announces $299 HomeView Smart Display","summary":"Apple announced its first smart display, the Apple HomeView, on October 13, 2026. The device pairs a 7-inch display with a dome-shaped base connected by a stainless steel hinge, and a woofer sits inside the base. It ships in Silver, Starlight, Rose Pink, and Space Gray, priced at $299. The HomeView launches November 13 in the United States and seven other English-speaking markets: Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Singapore, and South Africa. ASCII.jp reports no Japanese release date is set. Siri AI anchors the software. The HomeView recognizes up to six family members and builds a personalized home screen for each. Paired with an Apple Intelligence iPhone or iPad, it pulls calendar entries, messages, and Apple Music playlists onto the screen, and Siri AI conversations continue across Apple devices. Two full-range drivers sit on the display side, with a woofer and passive radiator in the base; computational audio runs on an A18 chip.","whyItMatters":"Apple is entering the smart display category at $299 with an eight-country launch that skips Japan, while the HomePod mini 2 and Apple TV 4K from the same announcement do go on sale there.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe same October 13 announcement covered two other devices that arrive in Japan. The HomePod mini 2 is priced at 24,800 yen and launches Friday, October 30, with pre-orders already open. It runs the Apple S10 chip from Apple Watch Series 10, recognizes speaker positions in a room, and adjusts audio automatically. Its five colors are white, pink, green, blue, and midnight, and its top reacts to bass and treble with a sound glow. It works as a smart home hub and can act as a speaker for a Mac.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fourth-generation Apple TV 4K costs 49,800 yen and launches Friday, November 13, the same day as the HomeView. It uses the A19 chip from the iPhone 17, with CPU performance up to 50% higher and GPU up to 2x faster than the previous generation, plus a dedicated AV1 decoder. Three long-range microphones are built in, and the new Siri Remote adds a Find feature that plays a sound. The HomeView\u0026#39;s wall-mount options come from Schneider, and the wider smart home lineup includes keys and door cameras made with LG and Schneider Electric.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Apple's $299 HomeView ships in eight English-speaking markets and skips Japan, where the HomePod line already sells. Siri AI's continuity across Apple devices is the pitch, but the language footprint is the constraint.","twitterPost":"Apple's HomeView ships in eight English-speaking markets. Japan, where HomePod already sells, gets no date.","threadsPost":"Apple's HomeView launches November 13 in eight English-speaking markets and has no Japanese release date. Siri AI carries conversations across Apple devices, but the device's first markets are all English-speaking, so the feature set arrives ahead of the language support it implies.","newsletterBlurb":"Apple announced the HomeView, its first smart display, on October 13, 2026. The $299 device launches November 13 in eight English-speaking countries, but not Japan. The same announcement brought a HomePod mini 2 at 24,800 yen and an Apple TV 4K at 49,800 yen, both of which do reach Japan.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"GAME Watch (Impress)\",\"url\":\"https://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/2147820.html\",\"title\":\"Apple Announces Its First Smart Display, \\\"HomeView\\\"! 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