[candiddevmike]

More integrated services for the home. HomeKit was supposed to be this big thing and it seems to have been silently forgotten. Same with improving the developer experience for building things on Apple platforms: the docs suck, the APIs are arcane (sign all your things, read this spec to figure out how!). IMO, aside from the swift fanboys, no one I've met enjoys developing for Apple.

[gumby]

> HomeKit was supposed to be this big thing and it seems to have been silently forgotten.

Actually this has just been rebooted as part of the "Thread" and "Matter" alliance. Might finally start working.

Apple's niche, as usual, is privacy, and part of their go it alone attempts (yes, plural) was because they wouldn't certify anything that nakedly leaked info. I don't know how all that will work now that Nest and Alexa devices (which share info with the cops without a warrant) will also be thread/matter devices.

[nl]

> HomeKit was supposed to be this big thing and it seems to have been silently forgotten.

Hopefully the reason work has slowed on this is because Apple & Google (and others) are actually getting Matter[1] right, so home automation will actually, finally work without having to geek out over all the details all the time.

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2022/03/17/matter-has-been-delayed-yet-a...