Apple’s new HomeView video resonated with Bridget Carey, but the true test comes when you get families and their kids in front of it. She breaks down the big news from Apple’s event, including what’s new in the HomePod Mini 2 and fourth generation Apple TV 4K box.
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Timecode Chapters:
0:32 Apple HomeView commercial reactions
1:56 New Apple TV 4K streaming box
2:05 Apple TV 4K price
2:24 Should you upgrade your Apple TV 4K box?
2:38 New Apple TV Siri remote
2:58 Apple TV 4K hardware updates
3:18 Get surround sound with Apple TV 4K and 4 HomePods
3:53 New HomePod Mini 2
4:03 Siri AI coming to HomePods
4:19 Apple HomeView
4:49 Snoopy on HomeView
5:03 FaceTime camera on HomeView
5:23 Multiple users and HomeView
5:57 How will a countertop HomeView device fit into your house?
6:22 Wall-mounted HomeView
6:41 HomeView apps and OS
7:13 What will living with the HomeView be like?
7:34 How will HomeView work with other smart home devices?
7:54 What’s next for Apple this October?
7:58 iPhone Duo hits stores October 23
Video Credits:
Host: Bridget Carey
Scripted by: Bridget Carey
Producer: Carly Marsh
Camera: Carly Marsh, Bridget Carey, Ajay Kumar, Andrew Gebhart, CNET Archive
Video Editor: Carly Marsh
Thumbnail Designer: Zooey Liao
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October 16, 2026 at 8:17 am
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@HorizonOfHope
October 16, 2026 at 5:20 pm
I’ve always wanted an iPad that’s worse and also connects to a bunch devices that spy on me on behalf of massive corporations.
@steeler1983
October 16, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Reminds me most of the Touch Screen iPod Nano. I don’t have the money for this, but take my money Apple. 😅
@domlarry
October 16, 2026 at 5:39 pm
Entry level iPad is the only product worth buying
The rest bad apples 🍏
@perhapsme988
October 16, 2026 at 5:39 pm
300 for Home View.
So why we don’t have an AFFORDABLE MONITOR from Apple around 400-500 ? Especially with a non-metal frame like iMac?
Or the pricing for Home View is such because it is entering into an existing segment like Duo is surprisingly lowish priced given it’s also entering into an existing market already?
I think apps for Home View will be allowed to grow quickly to take advantage of the hardware features.
Lastly, why not a more catchy name but instead of ‘Home View’? Why not, eg, ‘Our Home’ or ‘Our Hub’ name?
After all, “i” has been the best marketing slogan for Apple these last 20 years. Hence “we” or “our” ought to be the extension for a family product.
@sxc1225
October 16, 2026 at 6:09 pm
I am glad to see Apple expanding the SmartHome universe. I hope that means it starts to work better than it does now. I have an Eve outdoor security cam, and it working is a 10% of the time proposition right now. The only thing that really works well is the Schlage encode +. The Nanoleaf bulbs are pretty hit or miss. And Home working from the Mac is less relaible than it working from iPad or iPhone: Its a second class software citizen. No place to go but up for me.
@jordanthecat
October 16, 2026 at 6:10 pm
What will this new ithing do for me that my current ithings don’t already do?
@ArkadiuszWidawski
October 16, 2026 at 6:14 pm
I hope Siri will be this fast 😂
@robertladdieanderson6085
October 16, 2026 at 6:27 pm
so families are really like this?
@whyme3286
October 16, 2026 at 6:35 pm
I’ll pass on this one for now.
@officialyasir
October 16, 2026 at 6:37 pm
Why are some channels obsessed with background music? So distracting!
@holydiver73
October 16, 2026 at 6:40 pm
Homeview is the first Apple product that I am struggling to find a unique utility or purpose that isn’t already manageable by your iPhone, Mac or iPad. It’s just a cash grab that offers nothing new.
@Spiderjin
October 16, 2026 at 6:49 pm
good advice not to upgrade the apple tv if you have the 2nd or 3rd gen. id just add that siri ai on those models seems to arrive in beta and at launch only in english in a few countries, no eu, so for anyone watching from europe its even more worth waiting
@rogeriogomesosorio4755
October 16, 2026 at 6:49 pm
0:09 the answer is simple: no. Don’t buy it. There’s not a proper reason to buy it besides the fact that you want to spend money and you don’t care how.
@Dactylonian
October 16, 2026 at 6:54 pm
You called it — Snoopy!
@cheapme1850
October 16, 2026 at 7:15 pm
The people who hate this commercial are the same people who question why a camel is in an office asking what day it is.
@cheapme1850
October 16, 2026 at 7:22 pm
6:11. When people criticized the murder of this poor table by drilling a small hole in it, it just gave me the incentive to do that for my table since it basically serves as a desk for my MacBook. That way I’ll have a nice, routed USB power cable hidden from view and for the few times we actually eat on it, I’ll just put the napkin holder or salt shaker over it. 👍
@muratseyfiofficial
October 16, 2026 at 7:25 pm
You’re really great at presenting. It’s so refreshing! Funny and without weird speech patterns or unnatural tone. Thanks! 😎
@greenforest-zf7vs
October 16, 2026 at 7:30 pm
It’s trash
@greenforest-zf7vs
October 16, 2026 at 7:31 pm
Just as the empty promises in iphone 16
@davids1816
October 16, 2026 at 7:42 pm
If all that happened at your home already, what do you need another $300 limited function gadget for?
@venonat80
October 16, 2026 at 8:23 pm
Apple Home is the most pointless and unnecessary product they made. The presenter is absolutely right, its just a huge apple watch. They could’ve just made a app to make a iPad do all this. I bet any amount of money that someone will be making a mount that just a ipad stand, speaker and internal battery.
@Slappy_McFeral
October 16, 2026 at 8:41 pm
The ad made me appreciate my neuro-convergent family even more. The dad in the commercial definitely has a chair in the corner of his bedroom.
@perth-quokka
October 16, 2026 at 9:09 pm
why not enable the few features like multi-users and improved Home app on the iPadOS and get some mounts and bases and id prefer to use my home iPad for this … we actuallly have 3 iPads at home and one is the home base so I’d just use that thanks
@perth-quokka
October 16, 2026 at 9:23 pm
AppleTV price is high and who would use the HomePods to get surround sound anyway? I’ll take a good 5.1 or 7.1 system which would be cheaper and better anyway