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Eric Welander
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Приєднався 27 тра 2007
I'm an app developer and content creator that loves Apple and smart home tech. I've been making videos about it all here on UA-cam since 2018.
How Apple Intelligence could change your HomePods
HomePod mini and the full-size HomePod don't have the power to support Apple Intelligence. Why is that? And how should that change what you do with your smart home in the coming year?
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:56 Will HomePod and HomePod mini get Apple Intelligence?
01:24 Why Apple Intelligence would be helpful on HomePod
02:34 What about Siri Personal Requests?
03:30 Where do we go from here with our smart homes?
05:40 What about the future of smart speakers?
06:25 A future Apple smart home display
08:56 Where smart home controls are shifting
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:56 Will HomePod and HomePod mini get Apple Intelligence?
01:24 Why Apple Intelligence would be helpful on HomePod
02:34 What about Siri Personal Requests?
03:30 Where do we go from here with our smart homes?
05:40 What about the future of smart speakers?
06:25 A future Apple smart home display
08:56 Where smart home controls are shifting
#applehome #appleintelligence #wwdc24
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To remain relevant Apple is going to have to work this out. Next destination is tech is all of us will have an individual AI with us and embedding one in our home is logical. The question is will it be networked AI or on device AI. On device AI fits Apples agenda but that does not make it a guaranteed winner and it remains the more challenging and expensive of the two for implementation. Looking to Nvidia it is clear that a basic device like their Jetson sits at around $600 and we can expect this to come down rapidly.
Another great video !...The iPhone 13's processor the A15 Bionic chip has the equivalent processing power of the M1 which is getting the "Apple Intelligence" feature...It even has the same Neural Engine as the M1 all iPhones sold since including the iPad mini 6 Apple needs to get this out of beta and in people's hands that's paid for this processing power. Much love from all the UK 😊
If you insult Siri you get "that's not nice" or " I won't respond to that" but if you start with "thank you for" or "you're good at" Siri is happy to respond to any insult. The next Siri is going to profile me to share my comments to my government if I speak against it.
I had a contractor install this outdoor camera about two years ago. Recently my WIFI network changed and I had to reset all wireless devices to the new network. This meant I had to reinstall the Eve outdoor camera. The original packaging was long gone. Eve told me the QR code would be on the mounting plate. So I took the device apart to find it. It was not there, or anywhere else. Eve told me, and I quote, “you need to replace the device.” I am flabbergasted. Eve neglects to put the QR code on the secondary location, makes it therefore impossible for me to reinstall the device, and expects me to buy another one. I’m am done with this company. I just wish the camera were heavier so I could at least use it as a boat anchor. (I really wanted to like these guys. I even previously overlooked the fact that neither of the 2 motion detectors I bought from them worked reliably either.
“Great Intelligence comes with great privacy” hahah I love that!
The 5G UWB (Ultra Wide Band) does indeed work without the Millimeter Wave Antenna that is no longer on the iPad Pro M4. I have gotten speeds over 1GB on Verizon in my area.
Tell me mate why the hell do all you apple fan boys always buy everything new Apple bring out it must be costing you people a great deal of money ,
I don't think your concept of scenes and assistants, and such is the same as mine. I don't WANT to install buttons and switches all over my house. I buy smart enabled devices and I do not mind (even currently) how Siri can turn my lights to a different hue, or lock my door. The whole smart home I thought, was getting things done NOT manually. Putting a button ON a desk instead of IN the wall is just installing a button or switch in a non traditional manner to me. I want my assistant to do this stuff....I want it to know MY voice and not that of influencers repeatedly saying her catch phrase and when I ask him/her to place something on my grocery list, it goes on MY grocery list. Being able to have Siri know and keep information about me secure in my eco system would be great for future orders through door-dash...Hey Siri order my go to Door-dash order and pay with my Apple card. Just convenience is all I need, but install more manual items all over my house...naw dawg that's gonna be a no from me.
I HOPE to have AI on homepods
But I think that they might make a new product that will be the “Brain” of homepods Or they might use Apple TV for that
Will HomePods just use the private cloud compute?
The fact they created "personal cloud compute" but didn't make it available on iPhone 14 or older does not make me very optimistic. They are going to milk our wallets for sure.
Been waiting for that video
Unless they cram M4 pro and 19gb ram in homepod, No apple intelligence wont be on HomePods
could but won't
It would make a lot of sense for them to make a new HomePod to gain new ai systems and the rumor about it with a screen has got me wondering as the rumor suggested we will see it with a iPad mini sometime this year but there is no new iPad mini at the moment to support the ai features so Apple could just make a new iPad mini with the m4 chip which would handle the ai since Apple announces product in the fall with iPhones, Apple Watch, iPads sometimes, AirPods, and this new HomePod could be a consideration in September or October this year I this this new HomePod could unveil the rumored homeOS which could be something to make users home more alive with ai in their systems and products I definitely think this is possible this year but we will see.
I am not sure on the homeOS side and I bet the new iPad mini would come with an M2 chip. Still it would likely have the specs to handle Apple Intelligence and could be a cost-competitive option for using at home.
Does the Pico work with HomeKit? I got one from my pool builder to turn the colored lights on and off inside the pool and I would love if I could have it work with Siri.
If they can make a HomePod that doesn’t suck I’ll be tossing all my best home speakers (which also suck but I got most of them free)
The first room my S8 cleaned filled the dustbin. Overfull lol 😂
On the bright side it cleaned up a lot!
Wait so my home pods will be stuck with Siri 1.0?
They likely won't get LLM-based processing of requests, unless there's a way to send that over to more powerful devices in your home. That will likely be slower and not coming soon as Apple hasn't announced anything around it yet.
Doesn't this need the newer chips to work meaning all current HomePods won't work with Apple Intelligence? Guessing this is why they didn't mention it at all and are probably looking to update the chips in September
There’s a good chance older models could relay requests to a newer model, and older ones would continue to work as-is without new hardware in the home. But yes I bet there’s another hardware part to drop here before they have more to say
I have been considering why Apple is allowing us to finally pick which home hub is our default “connected” hub. It may relate to your postulation that we’ll need a beefier hub for controlling AI based commands. If we have just a few new hubs with internal hardware sufficient for executing AI commands, and one of these is the default connected hub, the other hubs in the house could serve as intermediaries between you (wherever you are in the house) and the AI-ready hub. Given how many hubs I have now - especially the HPg2 hubs - I really hope some sort of considered approach like this will be provided. There’s little impact on delay time for sending and receiving the language between our nearby hub and the AI hub and this is the only reason I see for not implementing an approach of this ilk. Other than the boatloads of money they could make from people upgrading…
That’s a great point on why choosing your hub would be so important.
Ugh NO! I love my HomePod minis and I hope they get better from Apple PLEASE 😭
Feb 1, 2023 - Just like the first HomePod, the HomePod 2 will leave a white mark on some wood furniture.
I think the Thread network should be able to connect to a Mac or iPad or Apple TV to deliver the command to be processed there. Would be a very dumb move to tell everyone their smart speakers are now dumb speakers.
I don’t think Thread is meant to handle this much data, but I agree I hope there’s an option to relay requests from older speakers
I’d love HomePods to actually play what I ask it to from Apple Music and not some random song.
lol! I agree. It’s getting better for me over time though. It’s certainly better than Sonos voice assistant for me too
Apple still hasn’t launched AI. It will becoming later this year. I’m thinking (and hoping) Apple will then update the HomePods to use AI. Otherwise they’ll become some expensive bricks, as Siri currently sucks! I have one HomePod 2 and six minis.
Hey man, enjoy your vids. Keep them coming. Just more of a question, but wouldn’t the M1 iPads or even the M2 iPad Air be the cheapest entry into the new Apple Intelligence. Would also address the form factor, like a smart screen, as you were saying. Thanks again.
Thank you! You are correct, the cheapest M2 Air is $100 cheaper than the MacBook Air
Why didn’t apple use the “Private Cloud Compute” branding to mean end-user owned devices teaming-up to process requests locally. If an apple user has an iPad with M4, a MacBook with M3, a TV with A15 Bionic, and an iPhone with A17 pro. That is a lot of processing power sitting unused at any given moment. If we estimate these chips to be on average about a powerful as M1 that is like an M1 Max chip, but potentially more.
It’s a good point that all that power is sitting there. I think the mesh between all that could potentially be slow. But I also think that’s why Apple has gated so much to newer devices. I think they want Private Cloud Compute to only run when it’s absolutely necessary and not for every request from a HomePod mini
I think you’ll see HomePod Gen 3 with neural engine on a SoC like the Apple Watch Ultra 2.
That would be great! But Apple Watch Ultra 2 isn’t getting Apple Intelligence.
We could also imagine to have a new « Apple smart screen » and all Siri request done on HomePods centrally processed by this new smart screen We will see 😉
Yes if they can make this fast enough it would be nice.
Yes, or Apple could upgrade the CPU in HomePod v2.
Prediction: They will release HomePods and Apple TV with m4 chip very soon but not on the new Mac’s until 2025
M4 isn’t needed. They could use the chip in iPhone 13 Pro as long as it had 8GB RAM it will still work.
M based HomePod with 8GB is coming soon.
I have 6 Homepods and Minis (plus an Apple watch) all through my house for that moment when I've fallen and can't get up: "Siri, call 911."
I’m sorry, you’ll need to unlock your iPhone first.
“Sure, here’s a playlist just for you”.
I think the MagSafe idea is a great one though how would Siri know when room it’s in. Usually with a speaker in each room it knows what room it’s in and the request doesn’t have to be too specific.
Maybe it could use LIDAR in some way?
It could use Ultra-wideband between your phone and HomePod(s).
I love the idea of a MagSafe stand somehow becoming an official part of your Apple Home
Watch it folks. Apple money grab.
I am not a tech expert but what happens, e.g., currently when you touch or get near your homepod or minis and it transfers music to them. Now, what happens if you touch or get near them for the purpose of allowing them to now be just an external microphone that will transfer your search query back to your iphone that will do all the A.I. stuff and then broadcast it back to your homepod/mini that way no one has to run out and start upgrading their homepods/minis
HomePod mini is dumb as it stands today. It does not execute orders by itself except for playing music or setting an alarm. My observation that it goes back to the iPhone or iPad to execute HomeKit or shortcuts orders. That worked with Apple since it is on device processing in a sense. Keeping the same approach as is would be more logical, otherwise you will pay for redundant hardware that you don’t need. 50% of the times, my iPhone picks up the voice command when I’m in closer proximity to the HomePod mini. And when it does not, the Apple Remote stays stuck on the iPhone screen. Since they established a secured line between devices on the network, capable Apple devices can receive the instruction from another device, process it and send it back. Consider it as a local cloud.
I could see Apple modifying HomePodOS to communicate with a local AI-capable device so that they could still take requests and deliver results by communicating to that device without needing all of the processing power in each HomePod.
HomePods will just use the private cloud. easy.
Apple TV with 8 Gigs of ram! Also your phone, computer and tablet.
@@Aggie4life77 8 is almost too much. I can have 500 tabs open in safari on my Mac... awesome!!!
I agree, this seems like a logical approach. Apple have already setup additional communication between Mac and iPhone with iPhone Mirroring, so AI offloading seems reasonable. It would also be very Apple to create a HomePod/AppleTV Pro, pricing it to sell would be difficult though.
@@Chris_Hruskathats not the point of retaining privacy
dude looks like tim cook
Really nice video - one question. How many workflows if I want to call them this do you have in your home? I am a bit concerned that it can get quite messy?
Mmm. Not sure I agree. Seems like there will be a hierarchy of intelligence delegation depending on what is required for a request. If a request is too complicated for a smart speaker the delegate it to a local IPhone, IPad, or MBP with a more advanced neural chip. If that isn’t enough, delegate the request to the Apple Intelligence cloud. If that isn’t enough, delegate the request to ChatGPT. The hierarchy could be configurable depending on privacy needs. Seems like we should be able to continue to use cheap edge devices for local IO while delegating to higher intelligence to l newer local devices or external clouds. Old devices may be recycled to work as local border routers or smart displays.
Hopefully, with the early fall release, we'll get an M-series-based AppleTV (8k?) that will provide more powerful gaming AND the ability to act as a selectable primary home hub/clearing house for Siri voice requests. I think this is part of the reason why they opened up allowing non-Apple HomeKit-enabled devices to be able to essentially act as remote microphones for Siri requests--your HomePods will essentially become smarter versions of that kind of device where Siri requests are concerned.
This makes a lot of sense
I literally came to the comments to say the same thing! Apple TV will play a big part in Apple intelligence in the home!
Either that or a Mac Mini or a device based on it as a central smart home controller/server.
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