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rushfanmike said:

We just signed a contract for one of these homes. They are providing the following Smart Products:

Echo Dot
Echo Show
Baldwin Evolved smart lock
Honeywell Lyric Round Wi-Fi Thermostat
Leviton Smart Plug-In
Leviton Z Wave Plug-In Module
Lutron Caseta wireless in-wall dimmers
Lutron Caseta wireless Smart Bridge Pro, Wireless Lamp Module, and Pico Remote with Double Stand.
Ring Video Doorbell
Samsung SmartThings Hub
Sonos One

I am curious to know how many of these smart products are Homekit compatible?

Not HomeKit compatible. 

Echo Dot 
Echo Show 
Baldwin Evolved - doesn't appear to be it may work in the future 
Leviton stuff with Zwave 
Samsung SmartThings 

HomeKit Compatible 

Honeywell Lyric 
Lutron Caseta 

HomeKit support supposedly coming 

Ring Pro Doorbell 
Sonos One 

SendMcjak said:

zone said:

... If this was not an Apple product people would be saying how great it is!

HomePod is a well-engineered product with fairly poor market fit + a terrible launch strategy.

The market fit is phenomenal.   What the HomePod is supposed to do is be the multiroom audio controller for 
a wide variety of vendor products.  As of now the system with the most vendor support is DTS Play-fi and it's 
software is some of the weakest out there but it's nice to have a choice of hardware.  

The HomePods value increases sharply when we understand how many existing products can be upgrade to Airplay 2 and 
how the benefits of audio support in HomeKit play out.   Right now it's hard to see the  value over a more mature platform 
like Sonos. 

The HomePod is a case study in how NOT to launch a product.    They pre-announced early for an awkward shipping month (December).  This date was missed and a few months later they deliver missing a bunch of features (Airplay 2, stereo pairing, HomeKit access) 

The HomePod should have been kept on ice until all the features were ready and all the Airplay 2 partners were within 2 weeks of firmware updates for Airplay 2.   This way the HomePod could have been marketed as a stand alone product or the "must have" accessory for your Airplay 2 compatible AVR or system .

For a company that has delivered scale in iOS device distribution it's perplexing that they've made so many gaffes outside of the iPhone/iPad ecosystem. 

Apple came to their senses. A new product with a December launch? That’s insane 

adbe said:

anton zuykov said:

smalm said:

Apple replacing Intel with ARM? Must be the first time ever we hear about that 

Ignore the benchmarks.  ARM chips are a long way from competing with Intel parts.  In a couple of years, the generally underpowered MacBook will probably make the transition, but even if Apple could guarantee that Adobe and MS would release their stuff for ARM in short order, the ARM chips simply don't have the grunt for the kinds of work that people expect to be able to do on mid-spec iMacs, and MacBook Pros.

Most people are simply surfing the internet.  You do realize Microsoft has already ported windows to ARM 
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Windows_RT

There is very little that Intel does that cannot be replicated with ARM hardware.