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The Smart Home isn’t yet where Apple’s heart is
My home is dumb.
Part of the reason is that I don’t have a house–I have an apartment, which I rent. That limits the investment I can make into smart home technology: No rewiring thermostats or installing smoke detectors for me.
But the other part of it is that right now, the smart home industry is disjointed, fragmented. There are a ton of disparate gadgets and more competing and wackily-named protocols than I can shake a (smart) stick at.
Someone needs to bring order to this chaos. Because I don’t want a bunch of smart rooms–I want a smart home. And this is exactly the area where Apple could really succeed, assuming of course that it wanted to.