HomeSwitch $149, HomeLock $499, HomeCam $249, HomeHub (AirPort with HomeKit) $249, HomeFan, HomeSafe, HomeLight, HomeEverything with optional highly recommended subscription for it.
Apple should’ve acquired August.
They’re already in tune with Apple in the design sense and have the potential to expand beyond locks and doorbells. They were acquired by the world’s biggest lock company so I think they’re now off limits.
I could see August expanding into door and window sensors next and beyond that into cameras and a thermostat.
Had Apple acquired August, they would’ve had, pardon the pun, a turn-key operation.
Putting an Apple logo on a failed complex lock won't make it successful. There's a reason why it wasn't adopted the first time around because higher complexity means higher chance of failure. For something critical that can potentially lock you out of the house or, worse, in the house in the event of a fire or unintendedly unlock the door to strangers, people aren't ready to give up the reliability of traditional locks. Technology should make life easier and not worse.
Review for a top rated smart lock:
You should update your knowledge. HomePod entered the field behind the others who were already established but they haven’t stood still this past year. In recent tests, HomePod is now ahead of Alexa in its ability to answer questions, though still behind Google Assistant.
In terms of capabilities, what Amazon calls “Skills”, HomePod is quickly catching up with Siri Shortcuts, enabling iOS apps to perform functions from a HomePod. What’s more, Shortcuts are easy for developers to turn on in Xcode, rather than having to purposefully write a Skill like Alexa requires. If they have an app, then turning on Shortcuts makes it compatible with HomePod. So, we’ll see Siri catch up quickly. Hundreds of apps have already added Shortcuts in the 5 months that it’s been out.
The combination of HomeKit and HomePod is already the best smart home implementation when it comes to reliability and execution, Apple just needs to get more products in the ecosystem. Hopefully this guy can help.
...cheap entries into smart speakers.
I’m not interested in getting the most profits but as a customer interested in products that give good value for money. I would applaud if that graphics showed the grow of good quality products instead of rising shares. Sometimes I wonder if Apple exists for shareholders or customers.That is how your investment profits would look today if you invested in Apple in 2012, in reality.
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Based on what? Show me your reliability and execution studies.
I’m not interested in getting the most profits but as a customer interested in products that give good value for money. I would applaud if that graphics showed the grow of good quality products instead of rising shares. Sometimes I wonder if Apple exists for shareholders or customers.
Yeah that getting into the home console market was a disaster for them......oh wait a minute
Traditional PC’s aren’t really Apple’s primary focus right now and that rubs a lot of people the wrong way, which is fair, but there is much more opportunity for the company in other areas such as mobile, wearables, health, AR, and services. For many, that’s just not what they have come to expect from Apple and they aren’t happy about it. Like yourself. That doesn’t mean there isn’t someone on the other side completely content with their current products, like me. That’s why there are different companies for different markets and customers.
I think you are making up excuses.
For example, all Apple had to do was update 2015 MBPs with a spec bump, and things would have been fine. There is no need for a primary focus for this. It really was just simply updating the specs. But instead we got brittle keyboards and a touchbar that no one really asked for.
Also a lot of pro Apple fanatics talk highly about how BIG the company is, yet their portfolio of products is pretty small. The size of the company is mostly owed to the majority of its retail employees.
It’s obvious why they chose this one.I did some reading on Jadallah and it turns out that he wasn’t just the CEO of Otto. It was his company. Apple has essentially acquired a ready made, yet unreleased smart lock.
This thing is extremely well built and impossibly small, considering the other smart locks out there that are at least twice the size of Otto and have cheap plastic gears.
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I’m not sure Apple is going to start releasing its own smart home products other than HomePod, but if they do, they could go the route that Microsoft has taken with Surface and Google is doing with Pixel. Release a reference device and encourage third parties to release their own versions to grow variety in the market with plenty of choice.
If they do, I’d like to see this under an arms length sub company like Apple has done with Beats. I don’t know if we need Apple branded everything.
Apple should’ve acquired August.
They’re already in tune with Apple in the design sense and have the potential to expand beyond locks and doorbells. They were acquired by the world’s biggest lock company so I think they’re now off limits.
I could see August expanding into door and window sensors next and beyond that into cameras and a thermostat.
Had Apple acquired August, they would’ve had, pardon the pun, a turn-key operation.
90% of the access points around me are the ones built into the modem supplied by the ISP. Mostly tech enthusiasts buy WiFi routers these days, and that's a dangerously competitive market to enter because models seem to have their price slashed in half and go on clearance in less than a year. Once ISPs start offering mesh solutions, it's all over.Apple us a major laggard in home space.
Abandoned airport.
Putting an Apple logo on a failed complex lock won't make it successful. There's a reason why it wasn't adopted the first time around because higher complexity means higher chance of failure. For something critical that can potentially lock you out of the house or, worse, in the house in the event of a fire or unintendedly unlock the door to strangers, people aren't ready to give up the reliability of traditional locks. Technology should make life easier and not worse.
Apple should’ve acquired August.
They’re already in tune with Apple in the design sense and have the potential to expand beyond locks and doorbells. They were acquired by the world’s biggest lock company so I think they’re now off limits.
I could see August expanding into door and window sensors next and beyond that into cameras and a thermostat.
Had Apple acquired August, they would’ve had, pardon the pun, a turn-key operation.