Apple is within the early phases of constructing a brand new Apple TV system with a built-in digital camera and speaker, in response to Bloomberg.
The latest Apple TV was launched in 2016 and is lengthy overdue for an replace because it competes with TV merchandise from Amazon, Google and Roku which have gained market share by routinely including new options.
A digital camera might allow companies like FaceTime calls, that are already obtainable on Macs, iPhones and iPads, and would let individuals video chat by their TVs. That may carry some options on a par with the Amazon Hearth TV Dice, which helps webcams for video chats however would not have its personal digital camera, or the Facebook Portal TV, which has a built-in digital camera. The speaker might assist it double as a HomePod-like system to play music and communicate with Siri.
Bloomberg warned Apple might nonetheless determine to scrap the mission.
Within the meantime, Apple is anticipated to announce a brand new Apple TV with an improved distant management and a sooner processor in some unspecified time in the future in 2021, Bloomberg said in September.
