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Apple rumored to be working on a smart home operating system version

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Re: Apple rumored to be working on a smart home operating system version

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Post by jcelerier »

ranger_danger wrote: post #5
dangus wrote: post #2

> For example, he expects there to be a hexagonal grid of apps, just like on the Apple Watch. One of the worst UI experiences out there.

28 million watch sales may suggest that not everyone shares your opinion.

Since when are sales in any way correlated to quality of the product?

Re: Apple rumored to be working on a smart home operating system version

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

ranger_danger wrote: post #5
dangus wrote: post #2

> For example, he expects there to be a hexagonal grid of apps, just like on the Apple Watch. One of the worst UI experiences out there.

28 million watch sales may suggest that not everyone shares your opinion.

Apple Watch lets you switch between the unusable hexagonal grid and a list.

I’ve been an Apple Watch user for over ten years and switched from the grid to the list as soon as that was an option.

Also, thanks for introducing me to the term argumentum ad populum. I didn’t know what that was called before.

Re: Apple rumored to be working on a smart home operating system version

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Post by vlovich123 »

amelius wrote: post #4

So is this about the kernel, or just the GUI layer? Or somewhere in between?

Somewhere in between. “New os” is them taking the base components of the OS and excluding some, including some new ones, changing the UX and DX, and defining how it fits into their broader ecosystem (in addition to things like adding new hardware support and whatnot).

Re: Apple rumored to be working on a smart home operating system version

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Post by easton »

amelius wrote: post #4

So is this about the kernel, or just the GUI layer? Or somewhere in between?

Probably mostly the GUI and some different set of system services / APIs. I think all of the OSes are the same XNU/Darwin base and then diverge dramatically in user space.

Re: Apple rumored to be working on a smart home operating system version

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Post by paulryanrogers »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #6
joshmarinacci wrote: post #3

In one sense this is logical. A HomePod with a screen and an iOS variant. On the other hand, what is this for? What uses do these smart home devices serve? We are a decade plus into the “smart home” era and most of these things are more trouble than they are worth.

Apple has on a few occasions in the past come in after people have spent a lot of time and energy developing things and making a small market, figuring out how it should actually work, making a nice version 1.0 of how it should actually work, making that market explode 100-fold and taking all the money. That smart homes are more trouble than they are worth currently sounds to me like ripe territory for Apple to poach…

Was Johnny Ive really a driver of innovation? Or just trading repairabily for vanity metrics?

Re: Apple rumored to be working on a smart home operating system version

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Post by FireBeyond »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #6
joshmarinacci wrote: post #3

In one sense this is logical. A HomePod with a screen and an iOS variant. On the other hand, what is this for? What uses do these smart home devices serve? We are a decade plus into the “smart home” era and most of these things are more trouble than they are worth.

Apple has on a few occasions in the past come in after people have spent a lot of time and energy developing things and making a small market, figuring out how it should actually work, making a nice version 1.0 of how it should actually work, making that market explode 100-fold and taking all the money. That smart homes are more trouble than they are worth currently sounds to me like ripe territory for Apple to poach…

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