Apple hires a major new member of the industrial design team, prepares to resurrect the HomePod and introduce more Mac M2s later this year+

According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and confirmed by LinkedIn, Apple has hired Peter Riering-Czekalla to be part of Apple’s industrial design team. It comes to Apple from Molekule, where he was their Chief Design Officer. The company made the Air Pro and Air Mini air purifiers. Below is a video of Molekule with Peter Riering-Czekalla.

Below is a video of Molekule with Peter Riering-Czekalla.

Gurman further noted in its weekly newsletter that Apple is preparing to resurrect the HomePod speaker which will look and sound like its original. 2018 model, According to The HomePod, it’s said to be powered by a new S8 chip with a slightly updated display on top of the speaker that may include multi-touch functionality. For context, the HomePod mini features an S5 chip, which suggests the newer model will come with more processing power. Presumably, Apple also plans to price the speaker more competitively than the 2018 model.

Gurman sources also predicted new M2 Macs beyond those announced at WWDC22:

• a Mac mini M2.
• a Mac mini M2 Pro.
• M2 Pro and M2 Max 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro.
• the M2 Ultra and the M2 Extreme Mac Pro.

As for Apple’s future MR headset, Gurman sources have pointed to the possibility that it will be powered by an M2 processor with 16 gigabytes of RAM. For more, read Mark Gurman Power-Up Bulletin.