So according to Ming Chi Kuo, Mayo, Apple is planning to make its first actual like smart home product in 2026 and it'll take the form of a smart camera.

So just like the Eve indoor cam or the ones from Ufi, it'll be an Apple branded smart camera, of course, to integrate with HomeKit.

And right off the bat when Quo reported this, I was excited because I've been wanting Apple to make

smart home accessories of their own for years, because the world of third-party accessories is

kind of like the Wild Wild West at times.

So Apple making something Apple branded with Apple support. I'm on board with that.

Then I also got to thinking, what could Apple offer that would set its smart home camera apart from some of the other options on the market?

I could think of quite a few ways that Apple could do something better, ranging from Apple Silicon, so it's super fast, super snappy in the home app, Apple intelligence

features really good, package detection or people detection or animal detection, which is

something the home app already offers, but it's not super reliable.

It's not bad, to be fair.

It's not bad, but it's not.

You can see how if Apple powered it itself on its own camera, its own camera hardware,

its own silicon inside, you can see how it could get a lot better and a lot faster.

Yeah, like, it's surprisingly decent for the third-party integration that's done.

So, like, I have the Eve Outdoor Cam, and, like drops off a delivery it will say a person and a package has arrived or you know just an animal has moved past or a person or it recognizes people pretty well from your photo library even people that you don't have listed as explicitly named people it can like find images from ago. I have some school friends come around and

it like finds a picture of them from like 2010 sometimes. So that's that's cool. Yeah. Obviously

this was all done the pre-AI model years, right? So it's just using older face recognition and

older object detection models. So there's obviously more that they could do if they have newer machine learning

and artificial intelligence running on it. And I think some of that has got to be to do with

responding to situations. Like the thing that really annoys me about my outdoor camera is that

it can't know that it's me when I'm leaving. So it doesn't ever, it doesn't know if I'm leaving or So it doesn't know if I'm leaving or

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