Apple job listing suggests it is preparing new ‘HomeOS’ operating system Wednesday, June 2, 2021 5:35 pm
Apple is working on a new operating system known as “HomeOS,” a job listing seems to have revealed ahead of the company’s WWDC next week.
Andrew Griffin for Yahoo Finance:
The page invited applications from engineers to take on a role as a “Senior iOS Engineer” working on Apple Music. It makes reference to a host of well-known Apple platforms – and twice discusses HomeOS, which has not been publicly revealed by the company.
“You’ll get to work with system engineers across Apple, learning the inner-workings of iOS, watchOS, tvOS and homeOS, and optimizing your code for performance in ways only Apple can. Come join our team and make a real difference for music lovers worldwide,” the page read. “The ?Apple Music? Frameworks team owns the technology stack that enables the system-integrated ?Apple Music? experience on all of our mobile platforms: iOS, watchOS, and homeOS.”
The page has since been edited to swap the references to HomeOS so that they instead read “HomePod”, the name of its range of smart speakers.
Apple does already make products for the home, which run their own software, in the form of the HomePod. While it is technically an altered version of the tvOS platform that runs on the Apple TV, Apple refers to it as “HomePod software”, rather than having its own specific branding.
Recent product introductions have suggested that Apple could be working quietly on unannounced new home features that are hidden in existing products. The HomePod Mini has a secret sensor inside of it, for instance, and the new Apple TV has a “Thread” radio intended to allow it to communicate with other smart devices in the home.
MacDailyNews Take: Right about now would be a perfect opportunity for Apple to really tackle the myriad home automation issues and make it drop dead simple for the average Joe and Jane to purchase and deploy iOT devices.
Morgan Stanley expects Apple Silicon advances at WWDC to fuel Apple stock surge Friday, June 4, 2021 5:05 pm
Morgan Stanley expects Apple’s WWDC keynote to be more of a catalyst for Apple stock than it has been historically, thanks to a spotlight on Apple Silicon.
Mike Peterson foR AppleInsider:
Over the past 10 years, Apple has underperformed the S&P 500 by a median of 120 basis points and 110 basis points in the first week and second week following a WWDC event. In the month after a developer keynote, it outperformed the S&P 500 by 70 basis points.
However, in the last two years, Apple stock performance post-WWDC has been more pronounced, [Morgan Stanley analyst] Katy Huberty writes. Apple outperformed the S&P 500 by 440 basis points in the first week after an event and 600 basis points in the month after.
“While we expect the majority of software/operating system upgrades to be more evolutionary than last year, we do believe Apple will highlight efforts to broaden the use of in-house designed silicon, and potentially launch a new MacBook with the Apple Silicon, making this year’s WWDC a potentially more significant catalyst than years past,” Huberty writes.
MacDailyNews Take: While WWDC is generally software-focused, hardware that is of particular interest to developers can appear during the keynote address, so the chances of seeing the new 14- and 16-inch Apple Silicon-powered MacBook Pros appear at WWDC 2021 are good.
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