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Apple Pulls Some Features From Rumored Smart Home Robot [Updated]
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Sorry, Apple, got over 100 Audible books that you refuse to support organically on your HomePods.
If you DO support Audible on this device, I'll be there, otherwise I'll just stick with Echos and go elsewhere when my original HomePods fail on my Apple TVs.
If you DO support Audible on this device, I'll be there, otherwise I'll just stick with Echos and go elsewhere when my original HomePods fail on my Apple TVs.
Of course it is. It needs software and they are incapable of developing it.
Since they fired Forstall they went on a steep decline with their software.
It held up just because macOS was the base of it all and it was an exceptional operating systems. Over the years as they modified it and adapted it to new technologies they destroyed it bit by bit.
The current software management team is a disgrace.
Everything they touch becomes a bug. It’s pathetic.
Since they fired Forstall they went on a steep decline with their software.
It held up just because macOS was the base of it all and it was an exceptional operating systems. Over the years as they modified it and adapted it to new technologies they destroyed it bit by bit.
The current software management team is a disgrace.
Everything they touch becomes a bug. It’s pathetic.
All based on speculative rumors. Too funny latching on to that.
Spot-on. It's as if people here have inside knowledge of what Apple customers would purchase.
And that Apple's massive success with 1+ Billion active and repeat customers making it one of the most successful consumer tech companies in the world are just winging it and getting lucky as a result.
Mobile phones were not a new product idea when Apple released iPhone. Nor were tablets, computers, watches, in-ear speakers, etc, etc.
Yet Apple prevails making it one of the most successful consumer tech companies in the world with 1+ Billion active and repeat customers who love to purchase Apple products.
Yes... there were a handful of flops. But those were conceived and released by Apple's previous CEO.
When the ship is adrift, there is little else to expect. This is a much worse version of the Spindler times, because there is no SJ alive to return to the company.
Well, just the other day Apple Home, went berserk and stopped controlling my Hue light. Everything was fine for a year ao so. Now I need to get the courage to configure once agains the 60 lights I have in HomeKit ... Hue App works fine.
I just hope there is integration into services like Ring.. if not this is DOA. The market has been cornered with products like this for almost a decade. In my opinion Apple is really late to the party here.
Because a rumored product which was never confirmed by Apple is rumored to be delayed due to rumored reasons?
It's more the norm for Gurman. He's never wrong, Apple just changes its plans... This time he won't even say what changed-- the implication is that no matter what comes out, he was right all along.
This is a great idea! Apple really need to look into making things more modular,?where an existing product can be used in a different way with a new product. That way, people buy more or buy newer models for their ecosystem. The idea of HomePod minis as surround speakers still baffles me how Apple hasn’t pursued this.
However, buying another device that looks like it could work the same as an existing device but with an add-on, won’t get many people excited
isnt it up to Audible to write the app?
i'm guessing they could but refuse to pay the in app purchase fees...
nothing stopping them from letting you buy outside the app and log in. like many other apps... (well except Epic who are hell bent on breaking the agreement they signed up for...)
Elderly people might do better with a somewhat standalone product like this. Someone knocking at the door? Look at the doorbell camera output on the screen, tell delivery people to leave the package, etc., instead of having to find your phone or iPad, unlock it, make sure you're in the app (can be hard for people with memory issues). And it is plugged in all the time instead of using batteries that someone may forget to keep charged.
The article doesn't give an image credit, so there's no telling how close that image comes to what's really on the way. However, it gives me hope that the interface may have been designed for people with some mobility issues, with big buttons and decent spacing, and adjustable font sizes for people with more limited vision. Stuff you don't have screen space for on a phone, at least.
In other words, its reason for being is probably to be a more accessible way to use all these features. Just because you don't need it doesn't mean it's not worth them attempting to do. I'd want Apple to have fewer interface changes and a longer product lifecycle than their i*OS devices, too.
Tim Cook must go. It’s crazy how much Apple is falling off.
And I don’t want Apple to fall off, by the way. The tens of thousands of dollars I have invested in their echo system kind of means I need to be Team Apple. Which is why Tim Cook must go.
And I don’t want Apple to fall off, by the way. The tens of thousands of dollars I have invested in their echo system kind of means I need to be Team Apple. Which is why Tim Cook must go.
Not sure why they're choosing to join the market now when both Google's and Amazon's versions of smart displays are already showing signs of abandonment.