What to expect from Apple’s ‘Welcome Home’ event

Apple’s upcoming “Welcome Home” event signals a more aggressive push into the smart home market, with a new hub, a refreshed HomePod mini, an updated Apple TV, and a possible new homeOS that could broaden Apple’s ecosystem lock-in. For CIOs and technology leaders, the strategic takeaway is that Apple is extending its platform model deeper into connected devices, which raises the importance of evaluating identity, privacy, network segmentation, and support implications as these products increasingly intersect with employee homes and hybrid work environments.