Apple has made a lot of mistakes with HomeKit, starting with no Macintosh support from the very beginning and only partial support to this day.
Tens of millions of Macs are sitting online at home and not one of them can be used as a hub for HomeKit. To ignore the huge bump that could have given HomeKit at launch just beggars belief.
HomeKit has been a failure for quite some time. Happy to see that Apple is finally taking note of this fact.
(Note : I'm not saying that HomeKit doesn't work well, but it needs a market presence. And right now, HomeKit-designed devices are scarce. Many were promised, few were actually delivered. And most by big companies, few by innovative ones.)
You have zero facts to support your conclusion that HomeKit is a "failure." The plethora of non-HomeKit devices on Amazon.com doesn't make those other devices any more successful.
Apple does not have the largest market share in tablets, phones, or computers either.
What's your evidence that it's not a failure?
Oh dear lord. No, that isn't how logic works. One cannot prove a negative. "Prove there isn't a god" or "Prove there isn't an invisible green man living on the surface of Jupiter. You can't SO IT'S REAL!" uhhh no. We don't need to prove it isn't true, the person making a claim has to back up the assertion and prove it true. Thus, they/you must prove HK is a failure.
As far as you anecdotes about HK not working for you, I will simply counter them with my own: my dozen+ HK endpoints are working perfectly fine. Easy to set up, easy to use. Automated schedules and Siri-issued commands.
Your view of logic seems to be prejudiced by whether the point is for or against Apple. How about if I said "what's your evidence that it's a success?" But neither of those was my point. My point was you have people making a post, then someone else contradicting that post saying there is 'no data' to support it but themselves providing no data to support their contradiction. It's a bit hypocritical, don't you think?
Of course I did provide some data regarding the lack of available peripherals in the second half of my post that you conveniently left out.
HomeKit has been a failure for quite some time. Happy to see that Apple is finally taking note of this fact.
(Note : I'm not saying that HomeKit doesn't work well, but it needs a market presence. And right now, HomeKit-designed devices are scarce. Many were promised, few were actually delivered. And most by big companies, few by innovative ones.)
My Lutron-HomeKit enabled home is firing on all cylinders. My only hiccup are first generation Hue bulbs in my kitchen that play well in the sandbox only about 95% of the time. They cost me too much to replace to fix a “5% headache.”
My home includes video cameras, temperature sensors, motion detectors, a flood detector, many many light circuits, thermostats, an ADT alarm system, two AppleTVs and a HomePod in the kitchen.
Not sure what everyone is whinnying about here. Yes, I would love support for a robot vacuum and replace my ADT system with a HomeKit enabled system from Simpli-safe, but I am patient and will wait for it to be done well.
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Of course I did provide some data regarding the lack of available peripherals in the second half of my post that you conveniently left out.
My home includes video cameras, temperature sensors, motion detectors, a flood detector, many many light circuits, thermostats, an ADT alarm system, two AppleTVs and a HomePod in the kitchen.
Not sure what everyone is whinnying about here. Yes, I would love support for a robot vacuum and replace my ADT system with a HomeKit enabled system from Simpli-safe, but I am patient and will wait for it to be done well.