Apple, you’re getting so close to what I suggested years ago…
Make something like the Echo Show 10, but instead of a fixed screen, put a MagSafe mount on it. Put MagSafe on iPads. Allow any iPhone or iPad with MagSafe to go into a HomePod mode where it charges while having essentially has the same features and functionality as the Echo Show 10, but you can take your phone/tablet with you when you leave.
Apple is so close to being there with the HomePod and with StandBy for the iPhone.
So basically a Pixel tablet? Because that’s the whole gimmick of Google’s new pixel tablet, that it comes with a speaker+charger dock that makes it like a giant Google home hub.
Sort of, but go back years earlier to release it ;) and also it’s about the dock (HomePod), not the tablet. It should work with any MagSafe iPhone or iPad. The Pixel Tablet, as the name implies is about selling a tablet that has a docking speaker accessory.
It’s a subtle distinction, but what Apple should do is sell a HomePod, with current functionality, that has a MagSafe mount, and then add MagSafe to iPads and in software allow HomePod (Standby) mode.
If you watch the MKHD review of the Pixel Tablet, you’ll see it’s a favorable review, but he wishes there was a better tablet and a better dock. If Apple did what I’m suggesting, they’d simply have a line up of low, mid, high end HomePods with MagSafe and BYOD would cover whatever level of device you wanted to use with it (or none at all as it would still function on its own via Siri).
Apple, you’re getting so close to what I suggested years ago…
Make something like the Echo Show 10, but instead of a fixed screen, put a MagSafe mount on it. Put MagSafe on iPads. Allow any iPhone or iPad with MagSafe to go into a HomePod mode where it charges while having essentially has the same features and functionality as the Echo Show 10, but you can take your phone/tablet with you when you leave.
Apple is so close to being there with the HomePod and with StandBy for the iPhone.
I was hoping Google would do this with the pixel tablet.
The dock would be its own Google assistant speaker. And pixel 8 phones would have those pogo pins
So basically a Pixel tablet? Because that’s the whole gimmick of Google’s new pixel tablet, that it comes with a speaker+charger dock that makes it like a giant Google home hub.
Sort of, but go back years earlier to release it ;) and also it’s about the dock (HomePod), not the tablet. It should work with any MagSafe iPhone or iPad. The Pixel Tablet, as the name implies is about selling a tablet that has a docking speaker accessory.
It’s a subtle distinction, but what Apple should do is sell a HomePod, with current functionality, that has a MagSafe mount, and then add MagSafe to iPads and in software allow HomePod (Standby) mode.
If you watch the MKHD review of the Pixel Tablet, you’ll see it’s a favorable review, but he wishes there was a better tablet and a better dock. If Apple did what I’m suggesting, they’d simply have a line up of low, mid, high end HomePods with MagSafe and BYOD would cover whatever level of device you wanted to use with it (or none at all as it would still function on its own via Siri).
100%! I have an iPad and HomePod mini in my kitchen and it’s so annoying having the hardware right there but the experience sucking
So HomePod that’s also an iPad dock where the iPad takes on a new interface when docked?
Sounds like you want a Google Pixel Tablet.