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Apple plans fabric displays for future devices like the HomePod



Future HomePods, iPhone cases, Apple Watch bands and more could display information right on their fabric covering, if one of the latest patents granted to Apple is anything to go by.

A familiar HomePod, but with a mocked-up display within the fabric

If a HomePod with a screen is the most commonly expected new home device that Apple may make, it’s also surely the easiest. Apple makes screens, Apple makes HomePods, so no matter how good it is, a HomePod TV is not going to be earthshaking.

But it’s also, quite definitely, not the only avenue Apple is exploring. There’s a newly-granted patent called “Fabric-Covered Electronic Device With Light-Emitting Components,” for instance.

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