Apple Pushes Back HomeKit Launch to August or September

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I've been holding out for homekit enabled products. I'm really excited for home automation products to just work.

Yep, me too. I had purchased the Hue system (bridge and 4 bulbs), but have held out on upgrading the remaining bulbs until this get worked out.

My desire would be for a solution that does not require a bridge, but at this point....

I am just looking for a lighting solution I can migrate too (hopefully Hue so I don't lose my investment, but I will take just about anything at this point).

 

[Black Belt]

Dammit! I am wanting this really bad. Existing home systems are all manufacturer centric so you have to buy into their worldview of things. They may have a great camera, but their locks or lightswitches are ****. I want to be able to choose the best in class of devices, mix and match how I want and control them all centrally without paying Magnolia to install some ridiculously expensive and poorly maintained home system. Please god, please.

 

[Keirasplace]

Dammit! I am wanting this really bad. Existing home systems are all manufacturer centric so you have to buy into their worldview of things. They may have a great camera, but their locks or lightswitches are ****. I want to be able to choose the best in class of devices, mix and match how I want and control them all centrally without paying Magnolia to install some ridiculously expensive and poorly maintained home system. Please god, please.

All's good, there is no delays, says Apple (end of article).

 

[bawbac]

I'm not sure if you're serious or not, but that article doesn't actually list a single security issue with the Apple Watch.

1. says people will be looking hard for vulnerabilities. Agreed.
2. points out that network communications have been hacked in the past. True.
3. points out that the data companies collect has not always been properly secured in the past. Agreed.
4. suggests that wireless network communications cannot be secured in a reasonable way. (Which is FUD -- unless you consider it reasonable to connect to an unknown network or device and then doing your online banking.)
5. says stolen credit cards could be used with Apple Pay, and Apple Pay can be used with Apple Watch. True.
6. again points out that Apple Pay does not solve the problem of stolen credit cards.
7. actually points out how tokenized payment systems like Apple Pay are more secure than ones that aren't tokenized.
8. vaguely suggests that Apple pay may not be 100% secure, that once unlocked for a specific payment, a charge can be made. (However, the person quoted either doesn't understand Apple Pay or was not talking specifically about it because NFC terminals, rouge or not, have no way to "slurp unauthorized payments".)

But not one of these are Apple Watch security issues. None of these are even problems with Apple Pay or the iPhone, but are rather preexisting problems that Apple Pay and the iPhone don't happen to solve.

I guess I'm still waiting to hear what the Apple Watch security issues are.

You said it, not me.
Just because Apple hasn't came out and hollered to the world there is an issue doesn't mean the issues do no exist no matter the method or source to expose the issues.

but are rather preexisting problems that Apple Pay and the iPhone don't happen to solve.

 

[iSee]

You said it, not me.
Just because Apple hasn't came out and hollered to the world there is an issue doesn't mean the issues do no exist no matter the method or source to expose the issues.

Well, Jesus Himself did't solve all that ills the world. I wasn't really expecting Apple Pay to do it either. It *does* improve the security of credit payments, compared to the kinds of credit cards used in the U.S.

And yet...

...the question was, what are the "glaring security holes found in Apple Watch"?

At this point, I guess there are none (despite the bold talk) or someone would've been able to link to it.

 

[cwt1nospam]

Anything Apple makes can not become Skynet due to the closed minded operation/coding by Apple.

Skynet needs to be free to think for itself.
May be Samsung and Google has a good foundation for Skynet

If by 'think for itself' you mean that it needs to have a built-in contempt for lowly human users, then I agree! This would explain why it wants to kill us all.

 

[JeffyTheQuik]

Bravo Sierra

Faced with a named source that definitively refutes the story and provides specific timelines, it is no longer a rumor. It is a falsehood. By your logic, when a rumor swirls of a star's death, then that person walks around the corner and says "here I am", you keep with the 'Mikey died from eating pop rocks and soda' lede. I never thought of MR as bush league. But there you go.

Update your headline to be more accurate in face of new, more sourced, information or stay on the junior varsity. Your call.

I'll give you that. The 'teasing you' part was for the scores of people that will give you the same line I did, but at least I was up front about it with me not being serious.

Anymore, with all news stories, I tend not to believe them, from the "major" news sources to the hometown paper. It's just all a game to get people to run around and accuse others of things that are at the extremes. It takes a mix of data, including my own believability factor to come to any conclusion. Instead, it's all "they're the devil, and we're the only people that will save you from them," on both sides of the table:

Samsung v. Apple
PC v. Mac
Android v. iPhone
I Can't Believe it's Not Butter v. Country Crock
Coke v. Pepsi

For me, even with MR, CoM, 9to5, AppleInsider, there is the truth in a mix of the "reporting", and for me, there will I go with that analysis.

So, with that, there you go. I'm with you on the whole analysis of the story, but I think I got my delivery of humor wrong, and I think I need to work on that.

 

[Tech198]

Not interested in this, because there is nothing worse then your lights don't work due to a network issue... or going wacko at 1am in the morning.