hmurchison

Thunderbolt Hubs tend to be pretty boring. 

8k Displays.  We can barely find affordable 4-5k displays 

2.5gbe ...lowest networking upgrade possible.  

Very niche. 

No 3rd Party software please.   For a HomeOS you need a very comfortable UI that belies the underlaying  sophistication.    You don't want your end users to end up bouncing into other interfaces.   Most Home Assistant user interfaces look excessively tweaky.   Even Apple's Home app to me is rather bland experience.  

Right now the UI are so heavily focused on device control they quickly become unwieldy after a certain accumulation of devices.    Apple needs to start to move people towards looking at their home from a Scene based workflow.  You Automate the stuff that you just don't want to think about (like my closets, laundry, pantry, garage all have motion sensors for the lights).  Next the complementary items in a home need to be paired together in scenes.   They say the hardest thing is to name things.  If you've 50 devices simply naming them and recalling them all via the app user interface or voice because exponentially more difficult.    If you can boil things down to a dozen scenes you have an easier target to find or even call out via Siri. 

Apple's put a lot of work into App Intents and I expect another large functional leap coming at WWDC.  Home OS is likely only partially delayed by Siri but the real grunt is going to come from the maturation of App Intents as the driving force. 

I enjoy the App Store experience so much that at one time I tried to make all of my software purchases through the stores. 

Dealing with Epic ....ugh.   Both my wife and I will attest to the pain of dealing with Epic Game substandard support system.  I agree 

whole heartedly with Morgan Stanley's approach. 

People are simply looking to simplify their lives and what some Government bean counter thinks is we want a model that resembles their clusterfck systems. 

badmonk said:

I had hoped Apple would have bought Bandcamp as I thought it would have been a good fit and a great gesture to the music community.  But alas after being acquired by Epic and Musictradr that ship has probably sailed.

I thought the same.  It was beyond obvious that it may be a good fit. 

Apple looking to raise prices is dumb.  Spotify raising prices is tantamount to a "blink first".   Apple's business is selling hardware tightly integrated with software and they quite famously wanted streaming services to be around $5.99 or so prior to Apple Music's launch.   Let Spotify fall on their own sword. 

Great advertising for Partiful.  Nothing compels me to use Invites over Partiful.  In the end consumers will choose the tool with the least amount of friction.  Throwing parties is stressful enough.