Apple's next big thing could be a home robot

Massiveattack87 said:
I bet this will end up like the Apple car. 
Apple just throwing stuff out there and seeing what sticks lol.

Apple does not seem to be focused. Ring, the apple car, robots now.. When can we expect real things?

Apple is doing what Apple has always done. They consider new products and figure out if they are viable or not.

There have been many rumored products over the years that never materialized. Steve Jobs talked bout how Apple developed a PDA and scrapped it, there was the rumored audio interface for GarageBand that Think Secret reported and Apple sued them out of existence for covering, I feel like there was a camera in there but that might be wishful thinking on my part.  Phones were something they were considering and was born out of the iPad project. So yeah, Apple fiddles with ideas and pursues the one's they think are viable. Kinda the point of R&D.  

As for "real" things go, Apple post Steve Job's return isn't a company that ventures into entirely new product lines frequently and they just released did the Apple Vision Pro. I don't think we are going to see a big new products in the near future. Refreshes of existing stuff? Sure.