> Apple used to sell a box, their "Time Capsule", which was a home server. But Apple discontinued that. Apple became so cloud-oriented that their thermostat has

> Apple used to sell a box, their "Time Capsule", which was a home server. But Apple discontinued that. Apple became so cloud-oriented that their thermostat has to contact an external server to get the outside temperature. Time Capsule wasn’t a home server, just a NAS with integrated networking and backup. You couldn’t run software on it. There has never been an Apple thermostat. Are you confusing Apple with a different company? There’s nothing strange about a thermostat calling an API to get the outside temperature. Most thermostats aren’t physically able to measure the outside temperature themselves.