Solving the smart home crisis
At time of writing, reports claim Apple will begin its new assault with a product reveal on October 13, where it’s expected to introduce that combined iPad/HomePod I referred to above, along with a bunch of upgrades for its existing smart home products: Apple TV, HomePod, and a new homeOS to glue it all together.
If Apple gets this right, I do think it has a huge opportunity to open up the domestic intelligence market, given that so many of the products that have been thrown at that segment have proved pretty poor in the long run. How many times each decade are you supposed to replace a piece of smart kit, and is it really positive progress if its life span is a fraction of that of the utensil it’s meant to replace?
A company that can deliver robust, resilient, easy to set up smart devices that last at least as long as their mechanical alternatives could do pretty well, although Apple isn’t expected yet to offer up an AI-savvy garlic press or coffee percolator, and I’m still waiting on the Apple iBike I asked for more than a decade ago.
This story originally appeared on Computerworld
