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> And easily access and understand your home electricity use with new Electricity Usage and Rates features[14] > 14: Eligible users include Pacific Gas and Ele

> And easily access and understand your home electricity use with new Electricity Usage and Rates features[14] > 14: Eligible users include Pacific Gas and Electric Company customers who have residential electrical service, including areas served by Community Choice Aggregators. Users must be the utility account owner or authorized user of the utility account. what an extraordinarily specific feature to put into Home.app. I guess California is a pretty big state, with a pretty big portion of their target market, but still

pornel 2y ago
New Maps features launch only in Bay Area. CarPlay EV integration works only with Porsche Taycan. Are they implementing things just for Tim?
- novok 2y ago
  New features are often launched with partner companies, and then all the PMs have a real life example to go point at to convince their conservative stakeholders to adopt the new thingy. Looking at your power usage is not an apple thing, it's a power company thing to implement.
- jonathanyc 2y ago
  The way Apple product management works is that everyone is always demoing stuff up the chain and ultimately to Tim. They’re reverentially referred to as “Tim demos” internally. If Tim likes it, you get tons of resources. The downside may be that in the pathological case you’re implementing stuff just for Tim. Another downside is you can’t really demo e.g. high-quality backwards-compatible SDKs to an exec. The upside is you end up with a pretty coherent and un-fickle set of products. Unlike Google, Apple doesn’t have a roster of five (?) competing chat apps that it constantly changes.
  - nolist_policy 2y ago
    Google released their latest chat app 7 years ago.
    - KetoManx64 2y ago
      Nope, Google Chat is their newest chat app and was released in 2021 : https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/21/22538240/google-chat-allo-hangouts-talk-messaging-mess-timeline https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/21/22538240/google-chat-allo...
dangus 2y ago
The obvious assumption is that they'll try to integrate with more utilities as time goes on and make it a more universal feature.

pornel 2y ago

New Maps features launch only in Bay Area. CarPlay EV integration works only with Porsche Taycan. Are they implementing things just for Tim?

novok 2y ago
New features are often launched with partner companies, and then all the PMs have a real life example to go point at to convince their conservative stakeholders to adopt the new thingy. Looking at your power usage is not an apple thing, it's a power company thing to implement.
jonathanyc 2y ago
The way Apple product management works is that everyone is always demoing stuff up the chain and ultimately to Tim. They’re reverentially referred to as “Tim demos” internally. If Tim likes it, you get tons of resources. The downside may be that in the pathological case you’re implementing stuff just for Tim. Another downside is you can’t really demo e.g. high-quality backwards-compatible SDKs to an exec. The upside is you end up with a pretty coherent and un-fickle set of products. Unlike Google, Apple doesn’t have a roster of five (?) competing chat apps that it constantly changes.
- nolist_policy 2y ago
  Google released their latest chat app 7 years ago.
  - KetoManx64 2y ago
    Nope, Google Chat is their newest chat app and was released in 2021 : https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/21/22538240/google-chat-allo-hangouts-talk-messaging-mess-timeline https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/21/22538240/google-chat-allo...

dangus 2y ago

The obvious assumption is that they'll try to integrate with more utilities as time goes on and make it a more universal feature.