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

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Post by kjkjadksj » Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 10:51 PM UTC

DrBenCarson wrote: post #86

kjkjadksj wrote: post #52

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No it was inevitable

Inevitable * in hindsight * Innovation is the introduction of a new paradigm that works so well that people can no longer imagine not having No one was close to the original iPhone at launch and they didn’t really catch up until ~iPhone 12 for truly competitive alternatives

It was inevitable in the sense the hardware was already available on the wholesale market. People tend to lionize these companies like they forged the phone out of the living earth themselves. Really they just contract with factories that assemble products out of components available on the wholesale market.

Sexy OS? You can argue that came mostly from within since that is how that software was developed, in house. But the hardware stack they ordered and had assembled for you? I’m not so sure.

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

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Post by paulryanrogers » Tue, Aug 19, 2025, 11:22 PM UTC

DrBenCarson wrote: post #85

guestbest wrote: post #80

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The iPhone wasn’t as innovative as the AppStore which didn’t come around until iPhone OS 2. Selling software like music changed everything

Cool. App Store extended the true innovation which was a fully capable OS in everyone’s pocket App Store doesn’t exist without iPhone just like Windows doesn’t exist without the PC

I recall getting apps on my Blackberry and Treo before iPhone existed.

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

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Post by ajkjk » Fri, Aug 22, 2025, 6:46 PM UTC

os2warpman wrote: post #77

marssaxman wrote: post #54

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Is it actually a good idea, though? It's crystal clear why companies would want to make and sell smart home devices which get customers locked into proprietary web services, but the problems these gadgets are meant to solve for the user have always struck me as... trivial. The last thing I want in my house are more fussy, flaky widgets to manage; they'd better have a really good reason to exist.

Anything more than air, water, shelter, food, and companionship is trivial. I want to live like I'm in Star Trek. The good Trek, not the new stuff. So when I wake up to pee in the middle of the night because I'm an old man my bathroom light turns on, dimmed to its lowest level, upon detecting my presence in the bathroom. I do my business and stumble back to bed and the light turns itself off. When I leave home my fro…

agree with this completely. the goal (and maybe this is what Apple can do) is make this possible for everyone, not just clever motivated people. I think it takes more leadership than the industry has mustered.

(And maybe their successors can also make it cheap...)