Q: Homekit
Okay Apple, you need to work on expanding your homekit compatible products...you should have added at least one sprinkler controller by now... The more compatible products you have the better off you are.
(Water conservation is important in California, garden's use a lot of water and everyone should be moving to smart controllers....just my personal opinion).
I hope Apple realizes that the next big computing platform for the home will be voice interaction (such as smart speakers) backed by Artificial Intelligence (or any passive listening device backed by AI). People will be building apps to interact with these AI services. Apple and Amazon's greatest initial weakness are the lack of big internet data like Google and Microsoft. But if you have good AI you will catch up because as it's used it will learn. I'm sure the next MacOS will have passive listening for a wake up word. The Apple TV would also be great for passive listening because you could ask the TV to search for something, turn on the lights, play music or show you something from the internet on the TV.... A speaker was a brilliant first step by Amazon's Jeff Bezos because he didn't have to deal with the complexities of video in the beginning... It is strictly voice and AI.
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Posted on Jul 10, 2016 7:13 PM