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“Apple’s darkest product”: Apple’s first smart home hub, HomeView, has a screen that can go as low as 0.3 nits

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In an interview with TechRadar on Nov. 13, Apple hardware engineering VP Matthew Costello said the screen on HomeView, Apple’s first smart home hub, can go as low as 0.3 nits, with an executive joking that it is “the darkest Apple product.” In translated remarks, Costello said they love HomeView and called it the darkest product Apple has designed, adding that the low brightness helps reduce its presence in low-light settings at night because it is meant to be placed by the bedside.

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"Apple's darkest product": Apple's first smart home hub HomeView screen goes as low as 0.3 nits

IT之家, November 14 — In an interview with TechRadar yesterday (November 13), Apple's vice president of hardware engineering Matthew Costello said that the screen of HomeView, Apple's first smart home hub, goes as low as 0.3 nits, and the executive joked that it is "the darkest Apple product."

IT之家's translation of Costello's remarks in the interview is as follows:

I really love HomeView; it is the darkest product we have designed to date, with minimum brightness down to 0.3 nits. So officially, I have built the darkest product in Apple's history. I don't know whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, but I'm very proud of it.

I really love HomeView; it is the darkest product we have designed to date, with minimum brightness down to 0.3 nits.

So officially, I have built the darkest product in Apple's history. I don't know whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, but I'm very proud of it.

The nit is a unit that describes screen brightness; 1 nit equals 1 candela per square meter. The smaller the value, the weaker the light emitted from the screen surface toward the viewing direction under the same measurement conditions.

On dimming the screen brightness, Costello said that because HomeView needs to be placed by the bedside, if it is too bright when lit at night it may affect the user's sleep, so its presence in low-light environments needs to be reduced.

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