Apple just announced its long-rumored smart home hub, the HomeView, during its "Welcome Home" event taking place today. As part of the event, it showed a video featuring the new device, and if you want to see it for yourself, you can watch it right here.
The HomeView is a 7-inch square display. It costs $299 and comes in two versions: one that mounts to a wall, and another that sits atop a small speaker base. It can be used to show smart home controls, pull up information with Siri AI, take video calls, and show footage from HomeKit Secure Video cameras. It's also a Matter controller and a Thread Border Router.
Apple CEO John Ternus also …