{"id":1040300,"date":"2026-10-02T08:22:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040300"},"modified":"2026-10-02T08:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T03:19:08","slug":"homepad-could-be-apples-next-big-thing-heres-what-industry-insiders-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/02\/homepad-could-be-apples-next-big-thing-heres-what-industry-insiders-say\/","title":{"rendered":"HomePad could be Apple\u2019s \u2018next big thing\u2019: Here\u2019s what industry insiders say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The only Apple products you can buy for a smart home setup are the HomePod and HomePod Mini \u2013 two devices that represent Apple\u2019s vision of the smart speaker. The Home app on the iPhone and iPad has been the only source of controlling your smart devices \u2013 there\u2019s nothing in between from Apple, like Amazon\u2019s Echo Show and Google\u2019s Nest Hub. There\u2019s no device that acts as a central command centre for households.  <\/p>\n<p>That is about to change by October 13, when Apple possibly reveals its \u201cnext big thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only Apple products you can buy for a smart home setup are the HomePod and HomePod Mini \u2013 two devices that represent Apple\u2019s vision of the smart speaker. The Home app on the iPhone and iPad has been the only source of controlling your smart devices \u2013 there\u2019s nothing in between from Apple, like Amazon\u2019s Echo Show and Google\u2019s Nest Hub. There\u2019s no device that acts as a central command centre for households. That is about to change by October 13, when Apple possibly reveals its \u201cnext big thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040341,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040300\/revisions\/1040341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}