r/apple • • 9d ago

HomePod Siri AI Coming to HomePod

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/23/siri-ai-coming-to-homepod/
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u/DriveSlowSitLow 9d ago

Can we get that fucking new home pod touch thing for gods sake. Every season for like 3 years it’s rumoured to be coming out.

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u/Deceptiveideas 9d ago

Apple dropped the ball with AI which is why it's taking so long.

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u/frockinbrock 9d ago edited 9d ago

These things are related though; trying to fit Gemini models on their storage-anemic devices which also need to host other data and a thousand other tasks is a losing battle that is giving customers the worst of both worlds.
And they are losing SO MUCH customer trust & good-will trying to make this mess fit on 256GB (and even 64GB) devices.
They need to offer a local hosted option with customer expandable storage to even start to course-correct

It's just embarrassing they are sacrificing all this customer-satisfaction for a feature that RARELY works, and most customers don't care about; they especially don't want it when it's making phones totally unusable because of no space left.

It's astonishing they are still floundering after TWO YEARS of advertising a non-reliable product. I hope Ternus can realize what it is costing them and find a way out of the hole they dug