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Homepods have U1 chips. They can position airtags within your house. You can put an airtag under, or adjacent to, a lamp and link it to a smart switch. Your app

Homepods have U1 chips. They can position airtags within your house. You can put an airtag under, or adjacent to, a lamp and link it to a smart switch. Your apple watch has gesture detection (still in beta, tbf), as well as U1 and real time positioning capabilities. Everything required for apple to know not only where you are, but which way your hand is pointing, as well as where "smart devices" are in your house is already being sold and rolled out en masse to the majority of people in the ecosystem.

ohgodplsno 4y ago
$25 for an Airtag, plus say $20 for a smart switch. Plus $200 for a HomePod. To turn a single lamp on/off by pointing at it, something that nobody ever wants to do (alright, once for the cool factor). If someone wanted to overpay for useless features, they can already go for a Philips Hue. I can turn off my lamps from anywhere in the world using a $10 Tuta ZigBee bridge and a $8 LIDL light.
- tlrobinson 4y ago
  You sir, are not Apple’s target market.
  - mgdante 4y ago
    Seems like Apple's target market is very narrow given homepod's weak sales
- parker_mountain 4y ago
  I think that this is one of those things that sounds like you'd never do it, but... I've put zigbee switches into every wall switch in my house and now when I stay in hotels, I forget to turn off the lights before getting into bed. >something that nobody ever wants to do I think that this gesture, if it works well, is something that will be a killer app for smarthomes. The other point of friction, which is interop, has been more or less solved by thread/matter. Homepods are $100, btw. Not to mention what happens if apple integrates u1 into a smart switch/bulb, which is something that the thread protocol allows for.
- diffeomorphism 4y ago
  Meanwhile you could use an iphone as a webcam for years by just buying an app,you could use an ipad as a cintiq by just buying an app, using your phone with your computer with kdeconnect also has been around for years. Pretty much nobody cared. Then apple came out with their branded version and suddenly you have people praising it as the best thing since sliced bread and great "innovation". So my prediction would be that apple releases a ZigBee bridge and light for $50 in about 3 years and calls it a fancy name. People will tell you how absolutely essential and innovative it is and how you could never get that without an iDevice.

ohgodplsno 4y ago

$25 for an Airtag, plus say $20 for a smart switch. Plus $200 for a HomePod. To turn a single lamp on/off by pointing at it, something that nobody ever wants to do (alright, once for the cool factor). If someone wanted to overpay for useless features, they can already go for a Philips Hue. I can turn off my lamps from anywhere in the world using a $10 Tuta ZigBee bridge and a $8 LIDL light.

tlrobinson 4y ago
You sir, are not Apple’s target market.
- mgdante 4y ago
  Seems like Apple's target market is very narrow given homepod's weak sales
parker_mountain 4y ago
I think that this is one of those things that sounds like you'd never do it, but... I've put zigbee switches into every wall switch in my house and now when I stay in hotels, I forget to turn off the lights before getting into bed. >something that nobody ever wants to do I think that this gesture, if it works well, is something that will be a killer app for smarthomes. The other point of friction, which is interop, has been more or less solved by thread/matter. Homepods are $100, btw. Not to mention what happens if apple integrates u1 into a smart switch/bulb, which is something that the thread protocol allows for.
diffeomorphism 4y ago
Meanwhile you could use an iphone as a webcam for years by just buying an app,you could use an ipad as a cintiq by just buying an app, using your phone with your computer with kdeconnect also has been around for years. Pretty much nobody cared. Then apple came out with their branded version and suddenly you have people praising it as the best thing since sliced bread and great "innovation". So my prediction would be that apple releases a ZigBee bridge and light for $50 in about 3 years and calls it a fancy name. People will tell you how absolutely essential and innovative it is and how you could never get that without an iDevice.