Hello and welcome back to Apple Park. I am so glad you could join us today. Just last month, we were
here to introduce some great new products: Apple Watch Series 6, Apple Watch SE as well as
eight-generation iPad and the all-new iPad Air. And we've got some more huge announcements for you
today. So Let's get started with an exciting new products for the home. We know you've going to
love. This year, our homes have become even more important in our daily lives. So it's critical
that the technology we choose for our home provides a truly great experience. When we approach
designing products for the home, we focus on three key attributes: First, they must be easy to use.
From the initial setup to the way you interact with it every day. And we design our products to work
better together, seamlessly and intuitively. We also design them to be secure and to protect your
privacy. Because you should be the one in control of how your personal data is used. We applied
these principles when we created HomePod. HomePod is a breakthrough speaker that combines precise,
high-fidelity sound with the intelligence of Siri. It provides an entirely new way to discover and
interact with music at home. And now we want to bring this experience to even more people. So today,
I'm excited to introduce the newest addition to HomePod family. And I'd like to show it to you now.
This is HomePod mini. And here's Bob to tell you all about it. I'm so excited to tell you about
HomePod mini. It's an incredible smart speaker, with a compact, elegant design that's perfect for
your home. It's wrapped in a beautiful, seamless mesh fabric that not only looks great, but was
created specifically for its acoustic performance. On top of HomePod mini is a backlit touch surface
that provides controls for volume, play/pause, and even illuminates when you invoke Siri. But the
design is just the beginning. In creating HomePod mini, we thought carefully about what you want
from a smart speaker. First, you want amazing sound that ensures your music, podcasts and everything
you listen to sound incredible. Next, you want a world-class intelligent assistant that helps you
wherever you are. And as our homes become smarter, you want it to serve as the brain of your smart
home, orchestrating and controlling a wide range of devices. And finally, because it's your home,
you want a smart speaker that puts your privacy and security at the forefront. All this is exactly
what HomePod mini is designed to deliver. And to tell you more about how we made this happen, Let
me pass it to Dave and Yael. At Apple, we have a passion for music, so we knew HomePod mini had to
sound amazing. We started by custom-designing every acoustic element. We created a full-range
dynamic driver that delivers high output while keeping distortion to a minimum and developed a
pair of high-excursion, force-canceling passive radiators that enable amazing bass response.
We also crafted an acoustic waveguide to deliver a consistent, 360-degree sound experience,
enabling you to place HomePod mini anywhere. In order to get truly big sound out of this compact
design, we combined it with the powerful Apple S5 chip and advanced software which all together
enables something we call... Computational audio. Even before you hear the first note,
HomePod mini is analyzing the unique characteristics of the music and applying complex tuning models
to optimize loudness, adjust the dynamic range, and control the movement of the driver
and passive radiators in real time. And all this happens over 180 times a second.
The result is an audio experience unheard of in a speaker this size and one only Apple can deliver.
Now, bringing amazing sound into your home isn't just about breakthrough audio quality.
It's also about letting you enjoy that sound throughout your house. Multiple HomePod mini speakers
can play perfectly in sync across your entire house. That's great for entertaining or keeping up
with your favorite podcast as you get stuff done. And when you place two in the same room,
they'll intelligently become a stereo pair, filling your space with rich, enveloping sound.
And to make HomePod mini the ultimate smart speaker for iPhone owners, later this year, you'll get
a new Handoff experience that's truly magical. Using the U1 Ultra Wideband chip, which we introduced
in iPhone last year, HomePod mini can understand, with high precision, when your iPhone is nearby.
Bring iPhone close to HomePod mini and you'll get visual, audible and haptic effects..
So it feels like your devices are physically connected as music flows from one to the other.
And of course, HomePod mini can play all of your favorite content. In addition to Apple Music,
you can listen to all your favorite podcasts, along with thousands of radio stations from
iHeartRadio, RADIO.COM and Tuneln. And in the coming months, you'll be able to use services from
providers like Pandora and Amazon. And because HomePod mini has the power of Siri, anyone in the
home can ask to play an artist, album or track, hear a playlist, or even search for music by lyrics.