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iOS 18 Speculation Thread

Apple trying to still convince consumers its special when it comes to home usage like everyone else out there.

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Apple Has a New Smart Home Strategy: Screens Everywhere

Apple is finally preparing to compete for the smart home market after falling behind Amazon and Google. Also: The Vision Pro team ponders its next steps; Apple Intelligence approaches; the next MacBook Pro shows up early in Russia; and two top executives are retiring.
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For years, Apple Inc. has sold the go-to devices for our pockets, wrists, backpacks and desks. But it has struggled to achieve that kind of success in other key areas: the car, the face and the home.
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The initial HomePod, launched in 2018, was pricey and didn’t offer groundbreaking features either. It got the ax, though Apple found more success with a cheaper version (the 2020 $99 HomePod mini). Then there’s the Apple TV set-top box, which has a loyal following but isn’t far better than cheaper alternatives.
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It’s worth noting that Apple’s smart home competitors haven’t had many breakthroughs lately either. Amazon’s initially strong momentum with its Echo speakers has waned. And some of its other hardware efforts, such as a rolling robot, haven’t caught on.
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That means Apple has an opening. One of the first big steps will be releasing a new smart display — something people can use to play TV+ streaming content, do FaceTime calls, surf the web, and access apps like Calendar and Notes. It would be an affordable iPad-like screen, and consumers could place multiple units around the house, like they might with a HomePod mini.
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The tabletop device, which is expected to come later, would be on the pricier side — perhaps around $1,000 — and focus on home security monitoring, advanced videoconferencing, and media playback with high-quality audio. The screen would be positioned atop a swiveling robotic limb, helping it stand out from competitors’ products.
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Kinda hard to convince anyone that a smart home is more useful than just having a iPhone handy.
 
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Realityck said:
Apple trying to still convince consumers its special when it comes to home usage like everyone else out there.

www.bloomberg.com

Apple Has a New Smart Home Strategy: Screens Everywhere

Apple is finally preparing to compete for the smart home market after falling behind Amazon and Google. Also: The Vision Pro team ponders its next steps; Apple Intelligence approaches; the next MacBook Pro shows up early in Russia; and two top executives are retiring.
www.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com






Kinda hard to convince anyone that a smart home is more useful than just having a iPhone handy.
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I couldn't care less about some "central hub display". For me, the "smart" part of smart home has to mean "as little manual interaction as possible". Turn the light on automatically when someone enters the room, turn them off when nobody's in the room anymore. Ensure it's warm when I get home but don't waste energy when I'm not.

This is already possible but it requires quite a bit of configuration and it doesn't adapt, it doesn't really learn your behavior etc.

The world of smart home accessories is also wild. Many connection standards (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Thread), a lot of stuff requires its own proprietary bridge, battery-powered stuff has all kinds of different batteries or charging ports.

My Eve Room just disconnected after recharging it and I had to fully reset it and re-add it to Home. Last time I swapped out lightbulbs for Nanoleaf's A19 Matter bulbs I had to manually update them via Bluetooth in their app first, then unpair them and fully reset them and only then was I able to connect to them via HomeKit and Thread. Netatmo has their own bridge, Philips as well, meh...

Apple should release properly working, easy-to-use, integrated accessories instead of some glorified stationary iPad.
 
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Wrong thread? 🤔
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If you read the Sunday Gurman article he has comments about Apple Intelligence and IOS 18 timeline, its just that was mostly last week. I just linked it with today's speculative focus highlighted. It does tie into the Apple intelligence being used to control your house.
 
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I think this is the appropriate thread since it’s about speculation.

So last night after a long week, sick and tired, I fell into a deep sleep and had a lucid dream where I was on some sort of adventure with Tim Cook. The only things I remember are that we were on foot in California trying to get him to Cupertino in time for a keynote. So I think it’s a sign that some new hardware is coming soon. The weird part was that every time we came to a red light he would go inside a little room on the street corner and punch in a code and the light would turn green. So from that I think a future iPhone will have a way to make lights always turn green, so everyone with an iPhone will never get a red light anymore (this is the kind of innovation that would keep me buying iPhones).

I remember he asked me what I wanted in a future phone and I kept explaining to him how bad we need a vapor chamber to cool them down. I think he said he was working on something for iOS 18.2 so we’ll see.
 
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redbeard331 said:
I think this is the appropriate thread since it’s about speculation.

So last night after a long week, sick and tired, I fell into a deep sleep and had a lucid dream where I was on some sort of adventure with Tim Cook. The only things I remember are that we were on foot in California trying to get him to Cupertino in time for a keynote. So I think it’s a sign that some new hardware is coming soon. The weird part was that every time we came to a red light he would go inside a little room on the street corner and punch in a code and the light would turn green. So from that I think a future iPhone will have a way to make lights always turn green, so everyone with an iPhone will never get a red light anymore (this is the kind of innovation that would keep me buying iPhones).

I remember he asked me what I wanted in a future phone and I kept explaining to him how bad we need a vapor chamber to cool them down. I think he said he was working on something for iOS 18.2 so we’ll see.
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Are you implying that there are to much speculation going on in this thread…? 👼💭
 
Whenever 18.1 RC releases, do RC versions typically have beta analytics still running in the background? I want to say no, but wanted to make sure.
 
IF RC includes information for new products which it will then we won't see the RC until they have shown off the new products.
 
Moukee said:
I couldn't care less about some "central hub display". For me, the "smart" part of smart home has to mean "as little manual interaction as possible". Turn the light on automatically when someone enters the room, turn them off when nobody's in the room anymore. Ensure it's warm when I get home but don't waste energy when I'm not.

This is already possible but it requires quite a bit of configuration and it doesn't adapt, it doesn't really learn your behavior etc.

The world of smart home accessories is also wild. Many connection standards (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Thread), a lot of stuff requires its own proprietary bridge, battery-powered stuff has all kinds of different batteries or charging ports.

My Eve Room just disconnected after recharging it and I had to fully reset it and re-add it to Home. Last time I swapped out lightbulbs for Nanoleaf's A19 Matter bulbs I had to manually update them via Bluetooth in their app first, then unpair them and fully reset them and only then was I able to connect to them via HomeKit and Thread. Netatmo has their own bridge, Philips as well, meh...

Apple should release properly working, easy-to-use, integrated accessories instead of some glorified stationary iPad.
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Completely agree with you!!! 👍👍👍
 
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redbeard331 said:
I think this is the appropriate thread since it’s about speculation.

So last night after a long week, sick and tired, I fell into a deep sleep and had a lucid dream where I was on some sort of adventure with Tim Cook. The only things I remember are that we were on foot in California trying to get him to Cupertino in time for a keynote. So I think it’s a sign that some new hardware is coming soon. The weird part was that every time we came to a red light he would go inside a little room on the street corner and punch in a code and the light would turn green. So from that I think a future iPhone will have a way to make lights always turn green, so everyone with an iPhone will never get a red light anymore (this is the kind of innovation that would keep me buying iPhones).

I remember he asked me what I wanted in a future phone and I kept explaining to him how bad we need a vapor chamber to cool them down. I think he said he was working on something for iOS 18.2 so we’ll see.
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Good morning brother, this is a good feeling!!! ;)😂😂😂:cool:
 
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Broken Hope said:
We are expecting new Mac’s though and I can’t see them releasing iOS RC and not macOS RC at the same time.
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My reply was more in jest than anything else. But I’m not sure there will be any cutting edge features in any new Macs that would require holding back an RC. I really just expect a spec bump on the Macs to M4.
 
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