Apple updates its smart home to catch up to Amazon and Google
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Apple announced important updates for its digital assistant Siri, the HomeKit smart home platform and the HomePod smart speaker at the company’s developer conference. Here’s a look at the state of Apple’s smart home following the updates.
We also grade each announcement on its excitement factor from 1 to 5. Apple didn’t give us the hardware we were hoping for, but it did maintain a foundation of privacy while slowly but surely gaining ground. Perhaps it’s doomed to remain in third place in the smart home, but Apple could be a sleeping giant, still putting the pieces together.
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1/10 for your home office set up. Could have put a bit more effort into it. The echo is atrocious :/
Terrible. CNET is getting more and more irrelevant. Unsubscribing.
apple charge big money for privacy but also have to buy tons of data from FB, amazon and google to get Siri working… people are naive that their info is private. people love the fact that apple is so big on privacy but is so willing to give privacy away on other platform only to buy back that info to get apple eco system working. This is a great business model charge big money for privacy, tell everyone we are so great at privacy and buy tons of your data on the cheap.
Will I finally be able to cast to my google home from the Apple Music app or do I have to suffer using Spotify?
Stop with your bleak humor. You’re not funny.
tldr: Apple is catching up with google but with more privacy.
Great video 👍
Espetially Journalists should lay the way more emphasis on privacy and not just say: 2:00 “the extra privacy is a nice touch”. Isn’t it the task of Journalism to question the politics behind products and the effect on the global democracy? … As a deep believer in the need of journalism this makes me sad.
Echo!!!!
From all the videos of CNET. This is by far the worst.. I will give this video and this stupid guy a 0.5 in excitometer (PS what a stupid word) and stop inventing words in a tech review. Smart people listen to CNET. This is not Fashion TV
Who cares?
I didn’t even know there was update to HomeKit, everyone talks about iOS and iPad and macs
Google translate is way more powerful. It can translate from pictures or even liver translate from the camera.
Bafflingly, Google Translate works better on the iPhone than on the Pixel 4.
I’m sure androids been doing that for years hah lol
I wonder does Apple Translate sucks like google translate. As translating quality is terrible
Homepod the size of Macintosh apple
Yea, not even close…
This kitchen is painful to look at
Why are they telling us how many more facts Siri will know than it did THREE YEARS AGO? All that matters today is how many more facts Siri will know than it does TODAY. Because today, Siri still kind of sucks.
They should reinvent the HomePod.
I’m waist deep with tech that integrates to Google, and have created routine customized to mine; too exhausting to adapt to a new system, even though I’m charging my iPhone, wearing my iWatch, have Apple TV running in the background, and typing this message on my iPad…
Stick to phones & computers please.…😒😒😒
Can they fix the part where my HomeKit hubs disconnect and become unresponsive until I factory reset them every 4 months?
All that money and Apple is trying to catch up with smart home devices? What is that even about? They’re like the top mobile phone, tablet and computer sellers… I’ll never get it. People come into the store I work for and purchase Google products because they felt like Apple and Amazon weren’t meeting their needs.
Siri is still hot garbage
When you look at what you can do with $100 with the echo ecosystem vs the overpriced HomeKit ecosystem it is just plain embarrassing. I can get 4 smart switches for the Echo for about $20, while in HomeKit land it will get you ½ of one. You could outfit your whole house for less than $200 in the echo world including smart plugs and bulbs everywhere and Wyze door sensors and cameras. Amazing.
I read an article a while ago about how Amazon’s question when offering a product is how little can we charge and still make a profit, so we dominate the market share, while Apple asks what is the most we can charge for this, and dominates the profit margin.
You’re doing really well, you just need to hone your delivery/comedic skills 👍👍
Homepod isn’t really an Alexa competitor, its more like a sonos system
Siri still can’t understand accents. Such my english, I am indonesian, Javanese accent and ethnicity, Google and Amazon understand clearly on my english, but I fail on Siri, even though my ecosystem is apple, I still use Alexa to handle my smart home.
Loss the beard.
Does anyone actually use this? Nothing much is available for it here so it’s pretty much no use at all. Siri just seems pointless, doing nothing I can’t already do without it.
Having more facts don’t help if you are dumb to understand the question .
Siri is just dumb.….
The new iOS is like android 8.……well done eh …
This is what happens when you have people who don’t understand what WWDC is and the importance of privacy that Apple is preaching who make dumb videos. Do some real research on HomeKit and maybe you will understand why Apple is going the route its going. If you are mad there is no hardware you missed the point and wait for a hardware event to see more hardware. CNET has fallen!
4:13 WTF!! A speaker you CANNOT use to listen to music. Who would buy such bullshit!!
It’s so annoying when critics say, google has already had this — Amazon has had that. Who cares! I don’t use Google or Amazon, so to me its new. Y’all are so jaded. Not everyone has 5 versions of a device. Can’t people just have their moment?!
I returned my HomePod this week after a month of use. Great speaker but my phone constantly disconnected from the speaker. Not worth my time
I thought that was a peach.
The distance between your fridge and your light switch is driving me insane also get a bigger fridge to fill up the cabinet cut out space
Amazin assistan on the phone is the worst
Look at that hideodorous kitchen
Maybe it’s the pandemic but these CNET reviews have really gone down hill. This was my go to review channel once. This really makes me sad.
I’ve been watching a number of these videos on Apple’s HomePod and I’m starting to realize that the “privacy” factor on Apple’s HomePod isn’t a big deal to A LOT of reviewers. ITS A HUGE THING TO ME. I think privacy is vastly important.
Google home sounds well and good however my 2 google home mini’s and google home glitch out at least once a week. As for my HomePod, it has just always worked.