$299 Apple HomeView: The Reviewer’s Husband Loves It, But Her Teen Daughter Isn’t Sold On It
Jen Tuohy, senior smart home reviewer at The Verge, tested Apple's first smart display HomeView for a full week. She placed the device in the kitchen, by the bedside, in her office, on the coffee table and at the entryway, and let her whole family try it out. Her husband loved it, but her daughter reacted with indifference. The full review has been published.
Apple’s first ever smart display is called HomeView, priced at $299. Jen Tuohy, The Verge’s senior smart home reviewer, tested it for a week. She placed the desktop version and wall-mounted version respectively on kitchen counters, nightstands, office desks, and coffee tables, and even mounted one at the entryway to work as a dedicated smart home control panel.
Photo: Hunter McRae / The Verge
The testing covered very specific real-world use cases: using it while cooking, controlling smart home devices, taking calls, and trying out the new Siri AI capabilities. She also let her whole family get hands-on with the device, and the results were surprisingly split: her husband, who is not particularly interested in tech products, is a big fan, while her teenage daughter reacted with zero enthusiasm. The original article leaves a hook, asking readers to guess why this discrepancy happens.
This product category is not new. Jen Tuohy says she has tested every single smart display ever made by Amazon and Google. Apple is only now submitting its first entry to the market, priced at $299. For a smart display to be a worthwhile product, hardware specs are only half the story — the other half depends on where it is placed in the home, and who is actually willing to use it. The same exact screen drew completely opposite feedback from her husband and daughter, a detail that tells far more about the product than any benchmark score.
This post acts as both the opening of the full review and an open Ask Me Anything session, where the author invites readers to submit questions. She does not give a final verdict at the start, the full in-depth review is available on The Verge. The original article also embeds the author’s short Instagram demo.
发布时间: 2026-11-12 22:10