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Joe Rossignol @ MacRumors · 05/26/2025 10:18 EDT

Apple's Rumored Smart Home Hub Has Faced a Disappointing Setback

Apple has scrapped some of the features that it had planned for its long-rumored smart home hub device, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


Fortunately, some of the features could be added to future models of the device.

"I'm told that Apple has pulled some bolder features from the device that could reappear in subsequent models," wrote Gurman, in his Power On newsletter this week. However, he did not reveal any of the specific features that were pulled.

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