A ƙarshe Apple ya shiga cikin kasuwar magana ta gida mai kaifin baki tare da wanda ake jira mai Siri wanda ake kira HomePod. An bayyana a WWDC 2017, da apple mai magana da hankali zai yi takara tare da irin su Amazon Echo da Google Home. Mai magana da murya mai magana ne wanda zai taimaka tare da ayyukan yau da kullun - amsa umarnin murya da kunna kiɗa, saita ƙararrawa, sarrafa na'urori masu wayo da bincika bayanai akan layi.
Kuma a bayyane yake, kamar sauran abokan hamayyarsa, za a tura ɗaukaka software ga mai magana da yawun Apple don kiyaye komai a yau. Amma ta yaya za a isar da sabunta software ga HomePod?
Ba kamar apple Watch, wanda ke da sadaukarwar aikace-aikacen Watch don karɓar ɗaukaka software, HomePod za a gabatar da ɗaukaka software ɗinsa ta sama (OTA) ta cikin App App akan iPhone.
“Sabunta software don HomePod za a sarrafa ta cikin aikace-aikacen Gida. Aikace-aikacen zai fadakar da masu amfani yayin da aka sami sabon sabunta software kuma zai nuna wani atisaye mai kama da wanda aka yi amfani dashi don sabuntawar iOS. Masu amfani za su sami zaɓi don kunna abubuwan sabuntawa ta atomatik, kodayake ba a san yadda za a sarrafa waɗannan ba, ”in ji 9to5Mac.
Kamar wannan, HomePod yana gudanar da nau'ikan iOS na musamman kuma yana sarrafa kansa ga yadda na'urar iOS zata, ba tare da nuni ba. Wannan yana nufin sabuntawar HomePod zai faɗi daidai da sabuntawar iOS nan gaba kuma. Sabuwar software da aka samo a fili don ita shine iOS 11.2.5, wanda zai iya zama sigar da aka girka akan HomePods.
9to5Mac kuma an bayyana cewa HomePod shima yana da wasu buƙatu idan kuna son komai yayi daidai. “Da alama za a sabunta HomePod kamar yadda sabuntawar agogon watchOS ke yi ta hanyar aikace-aikacen Apple Watch a kan iPhone, kuma wataƙila suna da abubuwan sabuntawa iri ɗaya (misali HomePod version 11.3 ba za a iya shigar ba idan iPhone har yanzu yana kan iOS 11.2.5) . ”
Umurnin HomePod ya fara ne a makon da ya gabata a ranar 26 ga Janairun 2018 gabanin fara gabatarwar kakakin a hukumance a ranar 9 ga Fabrairu.
