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Apple Once Again Refers to Unreleased 'homeOS' in Job Listing [Removed]

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Ahead of WWDC in June, a mention of "homeOS" was spotted in an Apple job listing, igniting suspicion that Apple would announce some significant home-based operating system at the conference. While nothing of that sort did materialize, mentions of "homeOS," a so-far never-before-heard Apple operating system, continue to surface in company job listings.

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In June, the job listing "homeOS" had appeared in was for a Senior iOS Engineer role on the Apple Music team. The initial job description read, "You'll get to work with system engineers across Apple, learning the inner-workings of iOS, watchOS, tvOS, and homeOS..." Shortly after the "homeOS" mention made headlines, Apple edited the description to replace homeOS with HomePod.

Now, a few months later, new mentions of homeOS have emerged in similar job listings. A similar iOS engineering role on the Apple Music team, posted on October 12, includes the same mention of "homeOS" that appeared in the job listing in June. The role, based out of San Diego, is also posted on Apple's regional sites, all with the mention of "homeOS."

Apple currently has two central home-based operating systems, audioOS for the HomePod, and tvOS for the Apple TV. audioOS is based on tvOS, but the two are still distinctive by name.

As part of its longer-term strategy and future product plans, a "homeOS" operating system would help better unify the company's offering for the home into a single operating system, but that remains entirely speculative.

Given that "homeOS" has appeared once again in another job listing, though, it's a safe bet to assume it is something that Apple has thought of but has just simply not yet made public. Alternatively, "homeOS" could be a name used by Apple internally, and might never be a public-facing software platform name. We've reached out to Apple for comment.

Update: After this story was published, Apple removed the October 12 job listing mentioning "homeOS" from its website.



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-BigMac- said:
Theyre going to sell Apple houses.

Yearly updates include:
- thinner bezels (walls)
- doors and garage will open twice as fast
- larger screens (windows)
- better cooling (air con)
- more battery efficient (led lighting updates)
- multitasking (additional rooms)

Jony Ive will host the house inspections
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No need for locks. FaceID at the front door.
 
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Apple should acquire Indigo Domotics and let them set strategy. It's amazing what they've accomplished. I've been running their Mac-based automation software 24/7 for years on Mac minis and it's superb. Super flexible, reliable, and well supported. And a bargain.
 
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Apple should acquire Indigo Domotics and let them set strategy. It's amazing what they've accomplished over the years. I've been running their Mac-based automation software for years and it's superb. Super flexible and reliable.
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But if the rest of Apple's user software quality and strategy is any indication, this would most likely ruin Indigo Domotics. Hope this does not happen, I am fine with Indigo Domotics as they are.
 
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Hopefully this will involve a step in the direction of Thread or Matter or whatever the heck they call it now. Every day that passes with different ecosystems that don’t talk to each other will make it that much slower for any transition as people get further entrenched in their current system. Convenience and expense (devices already purchased) will be big hurdles.
 
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I am in the minority here: All I need is HomePod Max. I want the HomePod, but with more room filling power. Or high end 3rd party audio equipment, that works with Siri and lossless audio, that can be selected from my phone.

But that’s not going to happen now, is it?
 
I don't know if this would be a consolidation of a few of their existing OS's or an entirely new one, but in general I'm concerned with the amount of OS's they have to manage. Even more so with rumored AR/VR and car products presumably on the horizon. I personally don't think they do as well as they need to be. Apple's always primarily been a hardware company with the software supplementing. But with Services increasingly being a larger focus and a significant contributor to their bottom line, I think it leaves even less room for sloppy software management. Something I think they've been getting worse at as they add more (watchOS, iPadOS, tvOS, etc.). I think it's still passable and not a deal breaker, but I guess I'm just concerned based on what at least I observe to be a downward trend with quality and consistancy.

That being said, I would LOVE Apple to be more serious and successful with home automation. I want them to prove me wrong. I'm just concerned is all.
 
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But if the rest of Apple's user software quality and strategy is any indication, this would most likely ruin Indigo Domotics. Hope this does not happen, I am fine with Indigo Domotics as they are.
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I don't think that's necessarily true. Sure, Mac OS has bugs. Like all other OSs and due to the massive scope and code size that go into an OS. Unlike home automation software.

It would be a great fit as Indigo is already Mac OS based. Just put Matt and Jay in charge and give them a sizable budget and excellent compensation.
 
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We present Apple Home, ran by homeOS. It's 100sq ft, and so minimalist that it's empty and designed to stay empty. All white to let your eyes imagine the wonders. Starting price $1,000,000. Apple Home Pro Max starting at 4,000,000. No charging cube included.
 
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I hope thy don't try to reinvent the wheel again. If they create a Home system that requires special Apple equipment, then they can shove that up their Apple core. I'm currently using Amazon's system and I like that I can choose between a lot of different manufacturers thus keeping my costs down. If Apple creates their own system, it must cooperate with other systems and manufacturers and not be a buggy mess.
 
Apple introduced this whole thing at the October 18 UNLEASHING. It involves Siri units in every room. Go back and watch the video.
 
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We present Apple Home, ran by homeOS. It's 100sq ft, and so minimalist that it's empty and designed to stay empty. All white to let your eyes imagine the wonders. Starting price $1,000,000. Apple Home Pro Max starting at 4,000,000. No charging cube included.
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… and you have to subscribe to “Emptiness”, since it is a feature on a 3 months trial but only if you buy an Apple TV first.
 
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Next there will be neighborOS, communityOS, cityOS, stateOS, countryOS, planetOS, galaxyOS
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Well, thanks to Foundation we are now sure they read Asimov. Ever heard of "The Last Question", a short story by Asimov?

Wiki:
The story deals with the development of a series of computers, Multivac, and its relationships with humanity through the courses of seven historical settings, beginning on the day in 2061 that Earth becomes a planetary civilization. In each of the first six scenes, a different character presents the computer with the same question, how the threat to human existence posed by the heat death of the universe can be averted: "How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?" That is equivalent to asking, "Can the workings of the second law of thermodynamics (used in the story as the increase of the entropy of the universe) be reversed?" Multivac's only response after much "thinking" is "INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER."

The story jumps forward in time into later eras of human and scientific development. In each era, someone decides to ask the ultimate "last question" regarding the reversal and decrease of entropy. Each time that Multivac's descendant is asked the question, it finds itself unable to solve the problem, and all it can answer is (linguistically increasingly-sophisticated) "THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER."

In the last scene, the god-like descendant of humanity, the unified mental process of over a trillion, trillion, trillion humans who have spread throughout the universe, watches the stars flicker out, one by one, as matter and energy end, and with them, space and time. Humanity asks AC, Multivac's ultimate descendant that exists in hyperspace beyond the bounds of gravity or time, the entropy question one last time, before the last of humanity merges with AC and disappears. AC is still unable to answer but continues to ponder the question even after space and time cease to exist. AC ultimately realizes that it has not yet combined all of its available data in every possible combination and so begins the arduous process of rearranging and combining every last bit of information that it has gained throughout the eons and through its fusion with humanity. Eventually AC discovers the answer—that the reversal of entropy is, in fact, possible—but has nobody to report it to, since the universe is already dead. It therefore decides to answer by demonstration. The story ends with AC's pronouncement:
And AC said: "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" And there was light

 
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I hope thy don't try to reinvent the wheel again. If they create a Home system that requires special Apple equipment, then they can shove that up their Apple core. I'm currently using Amazon's system and I like that I can choose between a lot of different manufacturers thus keeping my costs down. If Apple creates their own system, it must cooperate with other systems and manufacturers and not be a buggy mess.
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Why are you here? Apple always re-invents the wheel and then everyone suddenly follows. Like they reinvented the blackberry.
 
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