Analyst pushes back on tech crowd mocking Apple's $299 HomeView over a $399 wall-mounted iPad
SumitGup · x · 2026-10-17
Analyst Neil Cybart observed a telling pattern after Apple's event: the deeper people are into tech, the more they struggled to see the point of HomeView, with thousands replying that they'd just prop up an old iPad instead.
His rebuttal: these critics contradicted themselves by preferring to glue a $399 iPad to a wall rather than buy a $299 HomeView. He argues deep-tech users are precisely the ones most likely to have an iPhone as their main controller, so a dedicated wall device saves them a full iPad—and the jerry-rigged alternative misses the product's point entirely.
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