Apple explores home robotics as potential 'next big thing'
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#3"Smart home" has really fallen flat across the board, from smart speakers to the Roomba. It would be great if Apple changed that, but I'm not optimistic. I just don't think people really want smart home devices all that much.
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#4"Smart home" has really fallen flat across the board, from smart speakers to the Roomba. It would be great if Apple changed that, but I'm not optimistic. I just don't think people really want smart home devices all that much.
I think the issue is that smart home devices didn't do anything I couldn't already do, but a physical switch is faster than arguing with the computer.
Hey Google, can you turn off the baby bedroom light?
I'm sorry, I don't know that device.
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#5"Smart home" has really fallen flat across the board, from smart speakers to the Roomba. It would be great if Apple changed that, but I'm not optimistic. I just don't think people really want smart home devices all that much.
I have a Roomba, it works pretty well for doing 'maintenance level' vacuuming--keeping the level of cat hair to a manageable level, etc. For the most part, robot vacuums have succeeded in becoming boring, which is what I really want in an appliance.
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#6It would be nice to have a tripod on wheels that can have my iPad follow me around, and possibly respond to voice commands (move up, move down) or possibly integrate with the iPad camera to automatically be at eye level.
I've been using this and it's great but has its limitations: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01J6HBY1Q
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#7"Smart home" has really fallen flat across the board, from smart speakers to the Roomba. It would be great if Apple changed that, but I'm not optimistic. I just don't think people really want smart home devices all that much.
I think the issue is that smart home devices didn't do anything I couldn't already do, but a physical switch is faster than arguing with the computer. Hey Google, can you turn off the baby bedroom light? I'm sorry, I don't know that device.
I used to have a dozen or so Google Home devices for all sort of automation, but have mostly given up on it. I feel like Google is going to kill these any day now, the Google Assistant on them has been getting dumber and dumber. Where in the past, it would do its best to provide an answer, now for 99% of queries it just says "idk how to help with that."
So the only thing these devices are used for these days in my household are setting alarms and turning lights on/off. In the next home, probably won't even bother.
Re: Apple explores home robotics as potential 'next big thing'
#8"Smart home" has really fallen flat across the board, from smart speakers to the Roomba. It would be great if Apple changed that, but I'm not optimistic. I just don't think people really want smart home devices all that much.
I want a smart home, but I also do not want to send my data to anyone else and I don't really have the time to cobble something together.
If apple can refrain from sending the data to icloud or any other servers, then I would be very interested.
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#10"Smart home" has really fallen flat across the board, from smart speakers to the Roomba. It would be great if Apple changed that, but I'm not optimistic. I just don't think people really want smart home devices all that much.
Sonos would like a word.