{"id":194245,"date":"2026-03-09T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/apple-reportedly-delays-its-planned-smart-display-launch-to-fall\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T16:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:05:13","slug":"apple-reportedly-delays-its-planned-smart-display-launch-to-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/apple-reportedly-delays-its-planned-smart-display-launch-to-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple reportedly delays its planned smart display launch to fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/home\/smart-home\/apple-reportedly-delays-its-planned-smart-display-launch-to-fall-194539082.html\">Apple reportedly delays its planned smart display launch to fall<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/home\/smart-home\/apple-reportedly-delays-its-planned-smart-display-launch-to-fall-194539082.html\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/home\/smart-home\/apple-reportedly-delays-its-planned-smart-display-launch-to-fall-194539082.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-09 15:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.engadget.com\">www.engadget.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Certainly! Here are the key points summarized from the article by Mark Gurman at Bloomberg about Apple&#8217;s future plans and delays:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Postponement of Smart Home Display:<\/strong> Apple is expected to delay the launch of its smart home display, likely pushing it to September 2026 instead of earlier anticipated dates.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI-Centric Overhaul for Siri:<\/strong> The delay is attributed to Apple&#8217;s ongoing difficulties with completing its AI-centric overhaul of Siri, which is part of the broader Apple Intelligence package.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Hardware Complete But Not Ready:<\/strong> While the hardware for the smart home display has been reportedly finished for months, it won&#8217;t be released until the AI enhancements are sufficiently robust.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Internal Naming:<\/strong> The smart home display is internally referred to as device J490, a secret Apple has mostly kept hidden.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Rumored HomePod Speaker with Screen:<\/strong> Rumors about this device, which combines a HomePod smart speaker with a screen, have circulated since 2022 and have periodically resurfaced with new promises of an imminent release.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Completion Aim for September 2026:<\/strong> Apple&#8217;s revised timeline aligns the completion of its Siri revamp with the expected September launch of the iPhone 18 Pro.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Siri-as-Chatbot:<\/strong> There is speculation that Apple may unveil its new Siri-as-chatbot feature at its WWDC keynote in the summer before integrating it into the iPhone 18 Pro.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you need any additional details or further information, feel free to ask!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple reportedly delays its planned smart display launch to fall https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/home\/smart-home\/apple-reportedly-delays-its-planned-smart-display-launch-to-fall-194539082.html Publish Date: 2026-03-09 15:45:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/ONbFcTi4pI5cQQvimC957w--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD04MDA-\/https:\/\/d29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net\/images\/2026-03\/d99eb4ef-efc3-4b4f-b4b6-596e62960e1a","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194247,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194245\/revisions\/194247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}