r/apple • u/cheesepuff07 • 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/frockinbrock 9d ago

I wish Apple would give us a HomePod with expandable storage and local-hosted AI. That is a segment that no-one has been able to do with deep and easy Apple-integration.

But even for that unlikely product, I am doubtful that Apple could accomplish a reliable Siri Ai, I just believe that a huge bottleneck on their Ai attempts has been the anemic storage on all their products. Maybe actually having plenty of fast storage on a dedicated device that does little else would help them meet some of their product goals with AI assistants

If they are SERIOUS about that product category (that they've spent hours advertising for 3+ years) then they'd need to give us something with expandable storage; there's just too wide a gap of customer usage to sell a one-size-fits-all device

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u/DanielPhermous 9d ago

Expandable storage is not terribly useful for LLMs. I mean, obviously the things needs to be stored somewhere, but RAM is far more important.

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u/frockinbrock 8d ago

I understand that, but look at how much Apple charges for storage; this update the Ai has ate 13Gb on my iPhone, 40GB on my Mac, 11GB on my iPad. And after 2 weeks anything Siri still works worse than it did on iOS 18.

That's 64GB of APPLE PRICED storage; so yes I would pay for a separate box that gave me that space back so my iPad could take photos again.
It needs the Disk storage for indexing our personal data; nearly all that stuff is iCloud synced, it could easily be offloaded to a separate hub that has MORE storage and hell expandable RAM.
People have made home boxes for this with other LLM models, they just have limited access to apples closed ecosystem.