Apple's new smart home product launch is imminent, AAPL rises about 1.3% in intraday US stock trading.

BlockBeats news, October 12 — Apple will hold a "Welcome home" special event on October 13, US Eastern Time. The market expects the launch of a smart home hub, a new HomePod mini, and Apple TV, with the AI version of Siri expected to become the core of a new round of smart home ecosystem deployment.

The key focus of this product launch is whether Apple can further extend its AI capabilities from the iPhone to home scenarios and drive the commercialization of smart home devices and the service ecosystem. Combined with the positive cooperation signals released by Cook's visit to China, the stability of Apple's business in China and the progress of its new AI products have become focal points for the market.

As of press time, AAPL rose about 1.3% in intraday US stock trading. According to TradingBeats monitoring, the AAPL perpetual contract on Hyperliquid was last quoted at about $337.25, with 24-hour trading volume of about $3.8 million and open interest notional value of about $33.9 million.