The reaction around Apple's HomeView centered on an immediate question: can the company's hardware and ecosystem compensate for skepticism around Siri? One observer described HomeView as a testbed for that theory, saying it would fit their family if Siri worked well, but adding that they remained skeptical.
Other posts made the same point more bluntly. One imagined how much further the device could go with a capable personal AI assistant; another said Apple's home-hardware pitch looked strong but reacted wryly to it being powered by Siri AI. A separate post pushed the discussion into a counterfactual about where Apple might sit on the AI frontier if Steve Jobs were still alive.