Apple (苹果) plans an October 13 launch event for a display-equipped home hub, updated HomePod mini, and Apple TV, centered on Siri AI.

The launch schedule comes from a Telegram account of technology reporter Mark Gurman’s column. It says Apple (苹果) plans an October 13 event featuring a display-equipped smart-home hub, a new HomePod mini, and an upgraded Apple TV. All three are described as centered on Siri AI; the supplied text is not an Apple event announcement.

The report places the product plans within a leadership and design-management change. It identifies John Ternus (约翰·特努斯) as having succeeded Tim Cook (蒂姆·库克) as chief executive and become the final decision-maker on design. Finance and supply-chain responsibilities are described as delegated to Chief Financial Officer Kevan Parekh and Chief Operating Officer Sabih Khan.

Gurman’s account describes more frequent executive involvement with design teams. Ternus reportedly visits industrial-design and human-interface teams several times weekly, compared with Cook’s visits of at most an hour monthly. The report says Apple was not seeking an external chief design officer and characterizes Ternus as effectively taking that role himself.

Other reported product plans extend beyond the October 13 event. The source lists an October 23 release for iPhone Duo, a first organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and touchscreen MacBook Pro with substantially reduced weight, and the first OLED iPad mini. The MacBook Pro was reportedly being tested with macOS 27.2 and expected the following month; these remain reported plans, not completed launches.