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Apple retail teams are quietly preparing stores for a wave of new home products this fall, according to Mark Gurman in Sunday\u2019s Power On newsletter for Bloomberg<\/a><\/em>. Layout teams are rearranging the accessory walls known internally as Avenues and adding new accessory bays to make room.<\/p>\n Two of the products behind that shuffle are already known. Apple is planning an upgraded Apple TV set top box and a new HomePod mini, both of which have been in the works for well over a year.<\/p>\n The bigger signal is the scale of the retail changes, which looks larger than a simple refresh of two existing devices. Gurman suggests the long anticipated home hub with a display is also coming, and a product like that would need a new operating system, a new interface and dedicated demo space so shoppers can actually try it in store.<\/p>\n We covered the earlier report that the new Apple TV and HomePod mini were nearly ready for launch<\/a> back in June, and Apple has since been tied to a broader Siri powered smart home push this fall<\/a>. The retail preparation now underway suggests those launches are close enough that stores need to be ready.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n