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  • Editorial: Why does Apple have a monopoly on responsive corporate values?

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    How is Apple a monopoly on values? Are the keeping other companies from being sustainable, diverse or privacy focused?
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  • Crestron & Apple partnering for HomeKit & Apple TV integrations

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    StrangeDays said:
    gutengel said:
    I have a couple family members with Crestron System on their places and it's trash, the Ui is confusing and the remotes and screens look and feel cheap. To be fair, they don't have the latest and greatest, but every time they have any issue, some IT person has to come to fix it. Obviously the company want to play nice with HomeKit so their system appears updated and capable. However, I really hope Apple start making the Home Kit ecosystem more capable so companies like Crestron really work hard so you can justify purchasing their system or just get crushed.
    In what ways would you like HK more capable? What use cases are missing from HK APIs?
    The powerful aspect about Crestron, as far as I underhand, (I'm not super knowledgeable about their protocols or APIs) is that is agnostic and you can connect almost anything as far as it has some communication interface like infrared, bluetooth, wifi, zigbee, etc, etc. Even if you have a proprietary system or old hardware, you can usually build around it so you can control anything and everything from one place. Whatever you want to connect to HomeKit has to come ready from the factory, obviously is a much more reliable and intuitive system, but it excludes a lot of possible integration an backwards compatibility. Apple should to finally incorporate Thread for HomeKit on their new Apple TV or Router so it can open a whole new realm of possibilities for the smart home.
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  • LIFX readies launch of HomeKit-enabled Candle bulb and TV light strip

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    Do the TV lights have some sort of interaction with the TV content? If so, how does it work?
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  • Samsung's Galaxy Tab S6 updated with new S Pen and dual camera

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    How do you even do creative work on this thing without Affinity Suite and Procreate?
    watto_cobra

  • Google's Pixel 4 phone implementing system similar to Apple's Face ID

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    I don't know how useful the jedi gesture would work in real world practice, but for sure is the first time I see a feature and I say "that's cool, I definitely want to try it!". If Google nails these gestures (which is highly unlikely) it will push the industry to do something different.
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