Re:Apple’s Social Network
by TheOtherHobbes on Monday November 05, 2018 @01:59PM
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You're missing a range of Apple smart home products - and so is everyone else, because they don't exist.
Apple could have killed it in this space. The development costs would have been relatively low, and there was a wide-open goal with the possibility of much-improved security and privacy, high quality industrial design, AI, and yet more links to Apple devices, as well as providing a home network foundation for future products such as health monitoring devices.
Instead Apple handed the market over to 3rd parties and... not much of interest happened with HomeKit.
Apple could have killed it in this space. The development costs would have been relatively low, and there was a wide-open goal with the possibility of much-improved security and privacy, high quality industrial design, AI, and yet more links to Apple devices, as well as providing a home network foundation for future products such as health monitoring devices.
Instead Apple handed the market over to 3rd parties and... not much of interest happened with HomeKit.