Apple HomeView and Echo Show 16 aim at the family computer

What BBN said about it

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentApple's first smart display, the HomeView, costs two hundred ninety-nine dollars and has a seven-inch square screen, and The Verge says it and Amazon's Echo Show 16 could be real family computers.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSame Verge writer who wrote the obituary three years ago. Apparently the funeral was just a long weekend.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe category was underpowered gadgets from Google and Amazon that tried to do too much and did too little well.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThat was his diagnosis, not mine.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBut a shared screen is where a household actually lives. Calendar, photos, who's home. Everyone already fights over one tablet in the kitchen.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentIt supports up to six facial-recognition profiles. Six. It has no buttons, so touch and your voice are the only two ways in.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAdd that one to the list, right?

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentYou're at fourteen. Calling it a computer is the claim under review, and a computer usually has a keyboard.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOkay, but it dims to point three nits, so it works on a nightstand. Nobody's family computer has ever done that.

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    Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe reviewer says it may be a hair too big for a bedside table. The mount is sold separately, from fifty-nine ninety-five. Family computer.