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Does anyone have the 411 on the API to this thing? How will apps be developed?
by warent 9y ago
Does anyone have the 411 on the API to this thing? How will apps be developed?
- robert_foss 9y agoBy the chosen people, whom have had developmental access bestowed upon them by the grace of Apple. Seriously though; there is little to no chance that this will not be another locked down device with which Apple will try to monetize your home to the fullest possible extent.
- saagarjha 9y agoOr: people who paid Apple's $99 developer fee? Hardly a group of "chosen people". This would make sense if you were talking about something like CarPlay, but there's no discrimination here other than the one I mentioned.
- robert_foss 9y agoTry launching a new browser on the iStore. You're free to compete, as long as you don't compete against Apple. Microsoft was fined 561 million Euros for doing the same.
- saagarjha 9y agoLiterally on the homepage right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16213280 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16213280
- untog 9y agoYou have to use the Safari rendering engine, though - Apple will not allow any others in the App Store. I don't think that's as big of an issue as others do, but it is still a restriction.
- saagarjha 9y agoWhich is the same one that Apple itself uses. This was an issue a couple years ago when Apple kept the fast Nitro rendering engine for itself, but now that they've provided it to everyone else I wouldn't call it anticompetitive.
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- dljsjr 9y agoThe SiriKit and HomeKit SDKs will apparently have HomePod APIs. Primary control of the device still has to be done from an iOS device as far as I know.
- saagarjha 9y agoThere's no direct control of the device; i.e. apps are not run directly on the device. Rather, developers leverage SiriKit for a limited set of actions.