This seems to be becoming increasingly clear Apple has interesting future plans for the HomePod family, currently made up of two models, the original, which was discontinued in 2021, but which surprised us by reappearing in January of this year, and the small and versatile HomePod Mini, which at the time was considered by many to be the successor and heir larger speaker. This isn’t the first time Apple has recalled a product only to restore it later, but it’s certainly not common, far from it.

The big question we’ve all been asking since January with the return of the original speaker format is what made Apple decide to “resurrect” it. A question that doesn’t have an official answer, but an unofficial one that we began to deduce a few days after the return of the original HomePod: the plans of those from Cupertino to grow in the connected home market. A market where until now its access has been very limited, especially if we compare it to other technology companies such as Amazon or Facebook.

speakers, along with Apple TV, currently form Apple’s commitment to the connected home, even as they add third-party accessories and devices to their catalog. It is not a bad proposal… from the beginning, but it is true that many years have passed since the debut of the first versions of both, so the company has had time to make progress in this regard, especially when a device with a screen like the Echo Show.

However, it seems the time has come to address this market. So, and as we told you at the end of January, those from Cupertino would already be working on creating smart screens of various sizes for the home, but it does not stop there, because the popular and generally reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicted that Apple will launch a HomePod with a screen in 2024as we can read on his Medium page.

Its publication, as you can see, is particularly brief, giving no details on design, size, price, etc., although it does say that it will arrive in the first half of the year, and notes that the exclusive panel provider for the HomePod with a screen will be Tianma, which gives us leading to the belief that he has inside information from the company.

Yes, this isn’t the first time we’ve heard of a hypothetical HomePod with a screen, well Mark Gurman proposed it back in 2021, although she did not present specific dates. So the agreement of two analysts heading in this direction means that, with the skepticism we must always have in these cases, it is something to consider as likely.