**Apple's Future Plans and Products**

It seems that Apple is working on a new device, but we don't have much information about it yet. The device will run OS, but it's not expected to reach consumers until 2023. We can only speculate about its features and capabilities at this point.

One thing we do know is that the device will be an Apple TV, which means it will have access to films and series from various streaming services. It's exciting to think about using this device to make Facetime calls with friends and family who are far away. The device will also allow people to see each other on their TVs, making video calls even more convenient.

Unfortunately, the HomePod Mini seems to be a poor replacement for the regular HomePod. Apple has discontinued the full-size version of the HomePod in 2021, and there's no word on whether it will return. Instead, we're left with the HomePod Mini, which sounds good but doesn't quite live up to its predecessor.

The HomePod Mini is a smaller device, roughly the size of a marble. While this might be convenient for some users, it also means that it can't produce the same level of sound as the regular HomePod. Apple's audio capabilities have been a point of contention for many fans, and it's disappointing to hear that the homepod mini doesn't meet expectations.

One user's experience with the regular HomePod is particularly relevant here. The person finds that certain TV channels are extremely quiet, even when the volume is turned up to its maximum. This lack of loudness can be frustrating, especially during intense moments in movies and shows. The user wonders why this issue isn't addressed by Apple, and whether there's a way to increase the volume on these devices.

**The HomePod Mini: A Poor Replacement**

Apple seems to have made a mistake with the HomePod Mini. Compared to its larger counterpart, it simply can't produce the same level of sound. This is disappointing for users who want a reliable and loud speaker system for their homes or offices. While the HomePod Mini might be suitable for small spaces or personal use, it's clear that it won't replace the regular HomePod anytime soon.

The HomePod was once praised for its exceptional audio quality, but even with the miniaturization of the device, it doesn't quite live up to expectations. Users who have experienced the full-size HomePod will likely be disappointed by the lack of sound and volume on the Mini. Perhaps Apple could have released a companion speaker or subwoofer to make up for this limitation.

**Apple's Approach to TV Audio**

One thing that Apple is doing well is exploring new ways to bring high-quality audio to its devices. The regular HomePod, in particular, was praised for its exceptional sound quality and ability to fill rooms with clear and crisp audio. Unfortunately, the miniaturization of the device has compromised its performance.

It's surprising that Apple hasn't taken a more comprehensive approach to TV audio, especially given their investment in streaming services and content creation. Releasing a package of HomePods for surround sound or adding a subwoofer could have been a great way to enhance the user experience. Instead, we're left with a smaller device that can't quite meet expectations.

For now, it seems that Apple is taking things slowly when it comes to its smart speaker lineup. While the future looks uncertain, fans of the brand will likely be eagerly awaiting new announcements and updates on their devices.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enlet's dive into the story that i think that is probably the one that you're all most excited about let's talk about homepods my friends it's the feel-good story of the week because the homepods they're not dead they should have never died according to bloomberg home potty dead yet baby homebody this is like the movie pass of tech stories just it just can't it won't die it can't be it can't be it just won't die according to according to bloomberg we do have another permutation of the homepod in the works and if this is typical to be believed i don't know what tc is smoking over there in the uh the underground bunkers of apple headquarters but this is an oddball idea so the next homepod reportedly won't be a replacement for the full-size smart speaker apple is instead working on a combination apple tv home pod and facetime camera product so just imagine that loose where do you put a item that is an apple tv also a home pod and also a facetime camera around your tv like where would that even fit you can't put it in front of your tv can you or or maybe you can maybe it's going to be a sound bar maybe it's going to be an apple sound bar a home bot sound bar actually that would actually make sense there's a camera on it with face time and it also acts as your apple tv it just goes straight into the tv and you just see the giant screen top exactly exactly that that that makes more sense than anything else because they can't keep them to be the original shape of the homepods so actually that would actually i'm saying actually a lot that would be very cool if they did well what why couldn't they keep it the original shape because you're saying because it wouldn't be you can't be facing you it wouldn't be central to where you're well if you made a home pod that if you made a homepod in the shape that they have them now they're those round shapes oftentimes they are too tall to be put in front of your tv depending on what tv you have because they block part of the screen so i think it would make a lot more sense to have like a home pod sound bar that does all these things but i suppose you're right if they just made some small little homepod mini type products they could and they could just you know i mean a lot of people you know you got to figure out like you know just move your tv up on the a little bit right i mean that could work yeah you could do that as a as well but a lot of people don't want to like lift their tv up it has to be universal for tvs that are on mounts and tvs that come with regular stands so let me let me keep reading so according to according to bloomberg you're you're getting me all distracted sorry about that the device supposedly will be the heart of apple's smart home strategy quote uh this is a german i absolutely do think a new homepod is coming specifically a device that combines a homepod apple tv and facetime camera it would be cool to have a facetime camera in the living room too i get facetime calls in my living room all the time and i might actually use oh my gosh what's the feature called center stage i would probably use center stage if it were in my living room it could follow me around that's that's something that would be super useful okay carrying on with the story here uh rather than making oh wait wait a second um okay i already said this uh rather than making facetime calls with an iphone ipad or mac someone will be able to make them from this device and see the other person on their tv pretty cool and it would be an apple tv so it can make access to films and series from a variety of streaming services blah blah yeah we get it the device apparently will run os no one cares at this point it's not expected to reach customers i'm trying to get through the relevant information here at this point it is not expected to reach consumers until 2023 okay so a little a little ways off um the the future of apple's smart speaker is apparently the homepod mini now that is truly sad that is truly sad the homepod mini i'm sorry is a it it it's a poor replacement for the regular homepod it's not it's not even the same product the homepod was a masterpiece of audio crammed into a mac pro sized container and the homepod mini it sounds good but it's no regular homepod for sure uh let's see here he says the full size of this is uh sorry the full size version was discontinued in 2021 i can't believe it was only 2021 and reportedly isn't coming back german says uh quote i don't think a big standalone homepod is still in development but perhaps a new homepod mini is coming oh great oh good a new homepod maybe it will be minnie even minier this one even minier y'all it's easy oh well i'll be like this big like the size of a marble cool yeah you know i mean the only thing that's wrong with the homepod mini or the regular homepod actually is that it's not quite loud enough i mean do you notice this like um certain uh apple tv channels like let's just say shutter you ever watch shutter it's like a horror movie channel right i've heard of it some of those movies are really quiet i mean i the other day the wife and i are watching a movie and we're sitting there and i'm like and she goes can you turn that up and i'm like it it is up all the way and you know usually i mean she is always like oh please turn it down please turn it down and i'm like yeah you know explosions are loud and then once the explosions stop they'll be talking and we won't be able to hear it at all because it'll be this loud and and so we were constantly like fighting over the volume right but she's going please please turn it up i can't hear anything it's like yeah it's it's maxed out so i don't understand why apple tv can't take care of that i don't understand why the homepod is i guess it's not really the homepod that's not loud enough but if if it was actually able to produce even more volume when you come across one of these low volume inputs it would be nice to have a little bit of headroom yeah i agree and one of the complaints about the regular home pods were that they weren't loud enough even though that's what i'm talking about i'm talking about a regular home pod in stereo mode like there are certain things that are plenty loud but there are other things just it's just just not enough oomph there and i don't know what the limiting factor is i'm not going to go dig into it and figure i'm sure it's something to do with the original encoding of the movie or something but it seems like certain apple tv channels are quieter than other ones and i i don't exactly know why but man what i'm saying is i'd like it to be loud or not softer and the homepod mini is just it there's no way you could use it as a sound bar in anything no way no way people doing it but well if you have a small apartment or something sure or if you're just sitting at your desk sure but they don't get nearly as loud as a home pod and i would say not even two home pod minions get as loud as one home pod i haven't tested that but that's kind of the way it feels and then two home pods in stereo and stereo pair get out of my face get on my face that nonsense not even having that discussion with you and uh you know apple could have and what i was hoping i think what many of us were hoping is they would have they already they were in the the the tv uh home uh how do i say this the the the tv audio space right they could have had a package of home pods that you can use for surround sound wireless surround sound and then release like a subwoofer and i think that would have sold pretty well for them youlet's dive into the story that i think that is probably the one that you're all most excited about let's talk about homepods my friends it's the feel-good story of the week because the homepods they're not dead they should have never died according to bloomberg home potty dead yet baby homebody this is like the movie pass of tech stories just it just can't it won't die it can't be it can't be it just won't die according to according to bloomberg we do have another permutation of the homepod in the works and if this is typical to be believed i don't know what tc is smoking over there in the uh the underground bunkers of apple headquarters but this is an oddball idea so the next homepod reportedly won't be a replacement for the full-size smart speaker apple is instead working on a combination apple tv home pod and facetime camera product so just imagine that loose where do you put a item that is an apple tv also a home pod and also a facetime camera around your tv like where would that even fit you can't put it in front of your tv can you or or maybe you can maybe it's going to be a sound bar maybe it's going to be an apple sound bar a home bot sound bar actually that would actually make sense there's a camera on it with face time and it also acts as your apple tv it just goes straight into the tv and you just see the giant screen top exactly exactly that that that makes more sense than anything else because they can't keep them to be the original shape of the homepods so actually that would actually i'm saying actually a lot that would be very cool if they did well what why couldn't they keep it the original shape because you're saying because it wouldn't be you can't be facing you it wouldn't be central to where you're well if you made a home pod that if you made a homepod in the shape that they have them now they're those round shapes oftentimes they are too tall to be put in front of your tv depending on what tv you have because they block part of the screen so i think it would make a lot more sense to have like a home pod sound bar that does all these things but i suppose you're right if they just made some small little homepod mini type products they could and they could just you know i mean a lot of people you know you got to figure out like you know just move your tv up on the a little bit right i mean that could work yeah you could do that as a as well but a lot of people don't want to like lift their tv up it has to be universal for tvs that are on mounts and tvs that come with regular stands so let me let me keep reading so according to according to bloomberg you're you're getting me all distracted sorry about that the device supposedly will be the heart of apple's smart home strategy quote uh this is a german i absolutely do think a new homepod is coming specifically a device that combines a homepod apple tv and facetime camera it would be cool to have a facetime camera in the living room too i get facetime calls in my living room all the time and i might actually use oh my gosh what's the feature called center stage i would probably use center stage if it were in my living room it could follow me around that's that's something that would be super useful okay carrying on with the story here uh rather than making oh wait wait a second um okay i already said this uh rather than making facetime calls with an iphone ipad or mac someone will be able to make them from this device and see the other person on their tv pretty cool and it would be an apple tv so it can make access to films and series from a variety of streaming services blah blah yeah we get it the device apparently will run os no one cares at this point it's not expected to reach customers i'm trying to get through the relevant information here at this point it is not expected to reach consumers until 2023 okay so a little a little ways off um the the future of apple's smart speaker is apparently the homepod mini now that is truly sad that is truly sad the homepod mini i'm sorry is a it it it's a poor replacement for the regular homepod it's not it's not even the same product the homepod was a masterpiece of audio crammed into a mac pro sized container and the homepod mini it sounds good but it's no regular homepod for sure uh let's see here he says the full size of this is uh sorry the full size version was discontinued in 2021 i can't believe it was only 2021 and reportedly isn't coming back german says uh quote i don't think a big standalone homepod is still in development but perhaps a new homepod mini is coming oh great oh good a new homepod maybe it will be minnie even minier this one even minier y'all it's easy oh well i'll be like this big like the size of a marble cool yeah you know i mean the only thing that's wrong with the homepod mini or the regular homepod actually is that it's not quite loud enough i mean do you notice this like um certain uh apple tv channels like let's just say shutter you ever watch shutter it's like a horror movie channel right i've heard of it some of those movies are really quiet i mean i the other day the wife and i are watching a movie and we're sitting there and i'm like and she goes can you turn that up and i'm like it it is up all the way and you know usually i mean she is always like oh please turn it down please turn it down and i'm like yeah you know explosions are loud and then once the explosions stop they'll be talking and we won't be able to hear it at all because it'll be this loud and and so we were constantly like fighting over the volume right but she's going please please turn it up i can't hear anything it's like yeah it's it's maxed out so i don't understand why apple tv can't take care of that i don't understand why the homepod is i guess it's not really the homepod that's not loud enough but if if it was actually able to produce even more volume when you come across one of these low volume inputs it would be nice to have a little bit of headroom yeah i agree and one of the complaints about the regular home pods were that they weren't loud enough even though that's what i'm talking about i'm talking about a regular home pod in stereo mode like there are certain things that are plenty loud but there are other things just it's just just not enough oomph there and i don't know what the limiting factor is i'm not going to go dig into it and figure i'm sure it's something to do with the original encoding of the movie or something but it seems like certain apple tv channels are quieter than other ones and i i don't exactly know why but man what i'm saying is i'd like it to be loud or not softer and the homepod mini is just it there's no way you could use it as a sound bar in anything no way no way people doing it but well if you have a small apartment or something sure or if you're just sitting at your desk sure but they don't get nearly as loud as a home pod and i would say not even two home pod minions get as loud as one home pod i haven't tested that but that's kind of the way it feels and then two home pods in stereo and stereo pair get out of my face get on my face that nonsense not even having that discussion with you and uh you know apple could have and what i was hoping i think what many of us were hoping is they would have they already they were in the the the tv uh home uh how do i say this the the the tv audio space right they could have had a package of home pods that you can use for surround sound wireless surround sound and then release like a subwoofer and i think that would have sold pretty well for them you\n"