It will be interesting to see how well the HomePod will integrate with other devices. It will most likely integrate perfectly and seamlessly with other Apple d

It will be interesting to see how well the HomePod will integrate with other devices. It will most likely integrate perfectly and seamlessly with other Apple devices, and maybe not so much with other manufacturers. I have fiddled some with home automation and unfortunately, working with Apple products has been a miserable experience. Really? They are generally considered to be the UX/UI standard and have, arguably, built their entire company on optimizing these two things. If it takes Apple this long to ship a smart speaker, how do they think to keep up with integrating (or producing their own proprietary) building blocks for the smart home vertical? Apple generally releases products with a more narrow scope, and then iterates on those products. This has been their general approach, and it seems to be working well for them. If their devices on the smart home vertical continue to be as closed as the Apple TV, people will be completely locked-in Apple's ability to produce new devices, which certainly hasn't seem to be in their recent past interest. People have been "locked in" into their services and devices for years now, yet they keep coming back. I just think Apple's take as of now is a lost cause if they seek to dominate the space with the same sort of walled-garden approach Every single reasonable business metric (stock price, sales, growth, etc.) would indicate that you are wrong and those folks in Cupertino must be doing something right, but hey I guess this could be the thing that dooms Apple to mediocrity.