Analyst Guo Mingpei shared a tweet forecast today that apple is developing a new homepod and plans to release it at the end of 2022 or early 2023. Guo Mingyu mentioned that there may not be much innovation in the new homepod hardware, and he doesn't know what size the new product is. It may be the next generation homepod mini or a larger standard size homepod.
Earlier, Bloomberg mark gurman mentioned that Apple We are considering developing a new homepod, which is positioned between the first generation homepod and homepod Mini. Guo Mingxuan predicted that this product may be.
The price of the new homepod may be higher than that of the homepod mini, but lower than that of the first generation homepod. Finally, gurman also believes that apple is developing smart speaker devices with screens and cameras, similar to Google nest hub and Amazon echo show.