Apple launches $299 HomeView hub alongside new smart home range
Apple has launched HomeView, a $299 smart display built around Siri AI, with shipping from 13 November in eight markets. The European Union is not one of them, because Siri AI is still blocked on iOS there.
Apple has launched HomeView, a $299 smart display built around the new Siri, with pre-orders open and shipping from 13 November. It is not for sale in the European Union.
Apple says so itself, in the last line of the pricing section of its own announcement. The reason it gives is that Siri AI is currently unavailable in iOS in the EU.
That block is four months old. Apple said in June that EU regulators had rejected every proposal it made, and gave no timeline for Siri AI on iPhone or iPad.
The dispute is about interoperability. Apple says the Commission’s reading would force it to give rival assistants the same deep...
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