[Grammar] So let's get started with an exciting new product for the home.

[kadioguy]

(In the Apple Event)

Tim Cook:
Hello and welcome back to Apple Park. I am so glad you could join us today. Just last month we were here to introduce some great new products: Apple Watch Series 6, Apple Watch SE, as well as the eighth-generation iPad and the all-new iPad Air. And we've got some more huge announcements for you today. So let's get started with an exciting new product for the home we know you're going to love.

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Why is there a "the" placed before the "home"?

(a) ... an exciting new product for the home ...

(b) ... an exciting new product for home ...

What effects exist between them?

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(The source) https://youtu.be/KR0g-1hnQPA at 01:42

 

[GoesStation]

It's incorrect without the article.

 

[kadioguy]

It's incorrect without the article.

But we usually use it without an article. For example, go home, at home, work from home.

 

[jutfrank]

This is a very specific use, so the article is necessary.

The use is to refer to distinct places as they exist as part of the everyday world we inhabit.

Another context that might clarify this use more clearly is English language learning resources. Imagine looking through a textbook and seeing a page of vocabulary entitled In the kitchen or At the airport, for instance. The use of the definite article is not to talk about one specific kitchen or airport but to talk about kitchens and airports in general as they exist distinctly from bathrooms or from supermarkets.

In this case, the product is for the home, not for the workplace or for anywhere else.

 

[kadioguy]

Thank you both.

This is a very specific use, so the article is necessary.

The use is to refer to distinct places as they exist as part of the everyday world we inhabit.

The first "as" means "because". And the second "as" means "used to describe the fact that somebody/something has a particular job or function, as in She works as a courier."

Am I right?

 

[jutfrank]

The first "as" means "because".

No, that's not right. The first as means something like 'in the way that'.