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 Apple's smart home hub will likely launch in 2026, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
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 Throughout the 2000s and 2010s, Apple offered a line of Wi-Fi routers that it referred to as AirPort base stations. There was a standard AirPort Express, a higher-end AirPort Extreme with more advanced networking features, and an AirPort Time Capsule that doubled as an external storage drive for backing up a Mac with Time Machine.
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 In the early to mid-1990s, Apple released a wide range of quirky and unique products, ranging from printers and digital cameras to a video game console and a PDA with a keyboard. Steve Jobs nixed the vast majority of these products upon his return to Apple in 1997, helping the company to regain its focus and avoid impending bankruptcy.
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This is an easy DIY product consisting of a central hub, one door/window sensor, and a keyfob for arming and disarming. Once you have it set up, you can add Abode's reasonably priced motion sensors, smart lock, security camera, video doorbell, and keypad (for arming/disarming) as you need them. You can also arm/disarm the system with the keyfob or the Abode app on your phone. You can read about our personal experience with the product in our Abode Security System review from 2024.
The Abode Security Kit is compatible with both Amazon's Alexa and the Google Home ecosystem, and it comes with the option to add one of Abode's monitoring services. With the Standard Plan ($75 per year), you need to notify the monitoring center when your system goes into an alarm state (there's a 93dB siren in the hub), they can then dispatch first responders to your home.
With the Pro plan ($240 per year, currently discounted to $199), the monitoring center is automatically notified when your system sounds the alarm. You also get 4G cellular backup with the higher-priced plan, which keeps your system connected should your primary broadband connection fail. There's a backup battery in the hub to keep the system operational during a blackout.
You'll need to hardwire the hub to your router to set things up, but it can operate on your 2.4GHz Wi-Fi network after that. The sensor and keyfob come pre-paired to the hub out of the box, making it very easy to set up.
At its regular price, the Abo
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 U.S. trade director Peter Navarro took aim at Apple again today, causing the company's stock to briefly drop. In an interview with Fox Business, Navarro said that Apple thinks that it is "too big to tariff," suggesting that Apple might be expecting a tariff exemption that won't be coming.
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 Apple has asked a U.S. federal appeals court to overturn an import ban on Apple Watch models with blood oxygen monitoring capabilities, arguing that the decision was based on a patent dispute involving an undeveloped competing product, Reuters reports.
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