News from the IT community on October 2nd: According to source @itspdfu, who posted a tweet on platform X yesterday (October 1st), by analyzing the macOS 26.7 RC1 system code, it was discovered that Apple's first smart home hub (internally codenamed J490) is expected to be available in 4 colors.
In terms of colors, based on the code content, this netizen speculated that Home Hub might offer silver (Silver), deep space gray (Space Gray), starlight color (Starlight), and rose pink (Rose Pink).
As previously reported by IT, among the smart home devices that Apple is set to launch (previously rumored to be on October 13th), Apple plans to include a key step for creating "Photo Faces" during the setup process.
The latest tweet indicates that the Photo Face setup page will read the hardware color reported by the device, and the system will then select a matching preview image.

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