[ITmedia Mobile] Apple announces smart display "HomeView", but release date in Japan is unknown. Will it be released at all?

"ITmedia Mobile Weekly Top 10" aggregates the number of article accesses per week on ITmedia Mobile and introduces the top 10 articles. This time, we have compiled and summarized the data for 7 days from October 8th to October 14th, 2026.

The most accessed article this time was an article introducing Apple's first smart display product, HomeView. As it is a product based on the AI ​​agent "Siri AI", the initial release countries will be mainly English-speaking countries/regions such as the United States, where the beta version of Siri AI has begun.The Apple Store price in the United States will be $299 (approximately 47,200 yen) excluding tax.

Siri AI's Japanese beta support is scheduled to start in October, but there are less than two weeks left in October. At the same time, Beta service will begin in French, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish in addition to Japanese, so it was thought that HomeView would eventually be available in countries/regions where these languages ​​are official languages, but it has been announced that the release will be postponed for the time being due to legal requirements in EU (European Union) member countries.

It may be obvious, but Japan is not a member of the EU. Therefore, if the Japanese beta version of Siri AI is released, we can expect HomeView to be released, and we have actually posted a news release in Japanese. However, there is no information on the release date in Japan, and when asked, it is impossible to predict when it will be released.

There are several competing smart display products, including the Google Nest series and the Amazon Echo Show series. Apple is clearly a latecomer, but it will be interesting to see how far they can break down the stronghold of original products by combining it with Siri AI.