Apple Will Launch A New 'Command Center' Home Device In March With Apple Intelligence Integration, As It Steps Into The Home Industry

Just improve the Home app please. It's still on Matter 1.1.

I'd rather have properly working accessories that connect using Thread (not Wi-Fi) to one another and work without requiring a separate app. Currently almost every manufacturer requires their own proprietary bridge or they want to connect directly to Wi-Fi.

Give me a button/switch, climate sensors (Eve Room comes to mind as it has Thread but it's a PitA in some other ways), thermostats that can adjust based on an external climate sensor, lightbulbs etc.

Apple TVs and HomePods already work fine as a "Home hub", I don't need a separate, central display.

Unless priced extremely cheap, or Apple plays the walled garden game with peripherals and/or restricts current device capabilities, it is unclear what this device offers more than what iPad or iPhone already does for managing home devices.

Depending on hardware and price point, this might end up being an interesting device to modify/jailbreak.