![]() ![]() It wouldn’t even be the first time that Apple’s nodded at HAL. Pod and the murderous AI from Stanley Kubrick’s space opera, 2. It’s almost impossible to imagine that Apple overlooked the resemblance between this view of the Home. Still, the promo shot on the Apple Store website shows a bird’s eye view of the speaker which features the colorful Siri waveform in the center.Īpple says this dynamic image “appears on the top to indicate when Siri is engaged” and the surface offers “integrated touch controls also allow easy navigation.” In other words, the glowing orb responds, when you’re talking to it, just like HAL 9. It normally looks like a very handsome speaker product, as it should. Pod doesn’t normally look like an all- seeing eye of artificially intelligent doom. Is Apple fucking with us? The resemblance is almost too uncanny. Minutes later, an image of the product appeared on Apple’s website and, well, holy shit, it looks just like HAL 9. Pod, a new smart speaker armed with Siri, the company’s virtual assistant. Uh, Apple, Did You Think This Through? The crowd cheered in California on Monday, when Apple announced Home.
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