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

[ulyssesric]

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

And in the next major upgrade we'll have notch on the front door.

 

[MrMacintoshIII]

Never going to happen. It would be £999. You’d be better off with a decent amp and a set of loudspeakers from a company who have been doing it for decades.

Or… Apple just might break the mold. Again. Again.

 

[arobert3434]

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.

Really, they have two underlying OS's – macOS and iOS, and then some different "skins" on the latter that run a different UI and background services. And iOS and macOS probably share 95% of their "DNA". Memory management (swap, quotas) and user-space (launchd vs whatever iOS has) process managment, and the graphics stack differ, but I suspect they've been converging these as much as possible behind the scenes, so a lot of it could be the same codebase with different settings.

 

[SBlue1]

As someone who uses Tado and Hue I really really hope Apple is putting a lot of manpower behind this. The Apple Home app has been so unintuitive and crappy and cumbersome and just simply so bad compared to using the Tado and Hue apps.

 

[Aston441]

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.

Apple should just license Alexa and let Siri retire. Alexa is the undisputed king (queen) of home automation, absolutely everything works with it, not to mention Alexa actually understands what people are saying and gives real answers instead of nursing home resident gibberish.

 

[Force332]

Really, they have two underlying OS's – macOS and iOS, and then some different "skins" on the latter that run a different UI and background services. And iOS and macOS probably share 95% of their "DNA". Memory management (swap, quotas) and user-space (launchd vs whatever iOS has) process managment, and the graphics stack differ, but I suspect they've been converging these as much as possible behind the scenes, so a lot of it could be the same codebase with different settings.

I understand that. But as someone who doesn't have experience with coding or developing apps of any kind, all I have to base my opinions on is the end user experience for me. And in my personal experience, as time has gone on and Apple has introduced new OS's, the level of polish of each and amount of frustration I find using each has changed in the wrong direction. They're all supposed to work seamlessly together, and although they often do, I find myself increasingly finding they don't. Not to the point I want to abandon ship, but enough that I am increasingly frustrated and disappointed. And for me at least, has seemed to correlate with and increase in OS's Apple managed. Yes, I trust they all mostly share the same DNA. But none of that matters to me if the end user experience suffers. I'm not saying I know what the exact problem is or what the solution is. Like I said, I'm no where near an expert. It's just a concern I have based on my own personal experience and anecdotal experiences of others.

 

[twistedpixel8]

Or… Apple just might break the mold. Again. Again.

Perhaps for hobbyists but certainly not audiophiles.

 

[Brien]

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.

Let me add ecobee to this list.

 

[Phil77354]

Actually, I hope that Apple does not acquire any of those other, more innovative, companies.

We need them to be innovating and working without the constraints of a larger company. They'll add more to the Apple ecosystem if they're not gobbled up and absorbed.

I had a Nest thermostat shortly after they first came out. Two of them, actually. This was pre-HomeKit. They were great, I loved them.

Moved to a new house and in the meantime Nest is now part of Google. I didn't even consider Nest this time, and I have an ecobee thermostat now.