tvOS 18.4 Beta Further Hints at Apple's Work on Smart Home Hub

[WarmWinterHat]

Who needs an Amazon Alexa device? People still buy them, millions have been sold.

Alexa is platform-agnostic, and cheap. This will be neither.

 

[Dave245]

Alexa is platform-agnostic, and cheap. This will be neither.

That’s why it will be good for Apple users such as myself, those of us heavy in the ecosystem.

 

[WarmWinterHat]

That’s why it will be good for Apple users such as myself, those of us heavy in the ecosystem.

I have a mixed house. I'm on iPhone, wife is on Pixel.

Staying pretty smarthome-free until Matter is more prevalent and ecosystems don't matter.

 

[Dave245]

I have a mixed house. I'm on iPhone, wife is on Pixel.

Staying pretty smarthome-free until Matter is more prevalent and ecosystems don't matter.

Then it won’t be a device for you. We all use Apple in my house, i do have a S24 Ultra but that’s as a second phone. But we do have mostly Apple products so I’m guessing it will be more aimed at people like us.

 

[bigsnake49]

I am not sure that a new device is needed. Just strengthen the Home feature on an iPad, give it some more memory. What is urgently needed is to clean up Airplay so that it works consistently across. On the Home Interface I want them to easily (drag & drop) music from an Airplay source to an Airplay target. Same thing with sensors vs displays.

 

[Weaselboy]

My show performs fine, but it’s getting more and more aggressive with displaying sponsored content. And there’s no way to stop it. Not even PiHole. I didn’t drop $180 on a billboard for my kitchen.

Yep... I had two and sold them both because of all the ads.