Apple is really great at putting technology together with a great experience and good enough explanations as to how/why one wants to use a technology to get great adoption. ApplePay is a good example of this. Tap to Pay existed before ApplePay and yet it is the dominant contactless payment in the U.S. (even Apple’s smaller market share).
How does it recognize you? How does it distinguish between you and anyone else in your home? Can your system track you room to room? Having a system that knows that I am on the couch in the living room, one kid is his bedroom, and two more are in the kitchen would make possible the next level of home automation. Things like turn off all the TVs and stop playing on all the smart speakers when there is no one on the top floor of the house, or knowing when I come upstairs my bedroom is at the far end of the hall, so all the lights needs to go on, but your bedroom is the first one at the top of the stairs, so only the nearest light is needed.
Completely true. That is simply because is better at popularizing new technologies than other companies are. Apple tends not to talk about the technology itself, but the experience it creates. It also tends to make it be part of an ecosystem that all works together. Apple drove the adoption of WiFi by building it into its laptops and building a good WiFi Access Point/router that made it really easy for people to use. There were certainly WiFi access points, and WiFi PCMCIA cards, but by building the card into the laptop and providing a good experience for administrating the access point, they got many people using the technolgy.
It is simply because they describe an experience that these non-technology people can understand without needing to understand all the underlying tech.
Really? Apple rarely announces products months early and I cannot think of any case where they have talked about a technology more than 6 months. The iPhone and the Apple Watch were both announced a few months before they shipped. Both the 2013 and 2019 Mac Pro were announced a few months before they shipped (as was the iMac Pro), but those were niche products and not really new technologies. Even the Apple Silicon transition was accompanied by the dev kit shipping shortly after the announcement. Two to three times a year, Apple announces new products that ship at most one month after announcement (and often are in the stores when announced). What technologies have they announced years early? Other than the Air Power that never shipped, I cannot think of any.
