{"id":3572,"date":"2016-05-10T09:05:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T01:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/10\/why-a-dedicated-homekit-app-in-ios-10-is-exactly-what-apple-needs\/"},"modified":"2016-05-10T09:05:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T01:05:06","slug":"why-a-dedicated-homekit-app-in-ios-10-is-exactly-what-apple-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/10\/why-a-dedicated-homekit-app-in-ios-10-is-exactly-what-apple-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a dedicated HomeKit app in iOS 10 is exactly what Apple needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Screen_shot_2016-05-09_at_4.24.47_pm\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA1LzA5L2RiL1NjcmVlbl9TaG90LmRhZmY0LnBuZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/6990e782\/84c\/Screen_Shot_2016-05-09_at_4.24.47_PM.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Why+a+dedicated+HomeKit+app+in+iOS+10+is+exactly+what+Apple+needs&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F09%2Fhomekit-app-rumored-ios-10%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F09%2Fhomekit-app-rumored-ios-10%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>There&#8217;s a handful of <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/06\/25\/apple-homekit-products-video\/\">Apple-compatible smart home products already on the market<\/a>, but as of right now, you can&#8217;t control them via one master app or hub. This is one of the biggest disadvantages of Apple HomeKit \u2014 the software framework that smart gadget builders use to make their devices iOS-compatible \u2014 especially when you compare it to the streamlined experience of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/02\/10\/amazon-echo-review\/\">Amazon Echo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Put simply, Apple&#8217;s smart home platform is too siloed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">But here&#8217;s some potential good news: <\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">the rumor mill<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\u00a0(<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\"><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/05\/20\/apple-home-app\/\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">o<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">nce again<\/span><\/a>)<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\"> says<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\u00a0Apple is hard at work developing a smart home app for iOS 10 ahead of next month&#8217;s annual Apple Worldwide Developer&#8217;s Conference (WWDC). If it&#8217;s legit, this would give Apple smart home users a <\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5\">much<\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\"> better way manage smart locks, lights, blinds and so on, without having to use a specific app for each gadget.<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/09\/homekit-app-rumored-ios-10\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/smart-home\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Smart Home<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/homekit\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Homekit<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/mobile\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Mobile<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/apple\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Apple<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tech<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/VxrAk2umXdE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a handful of Apple-compatible smart home products already on the market, but as of right now, you can&#8217;t control them via one master app or hub. This is one of the biggest disadvantages of Apple HomeKit \u2014 the software &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/10\/why-a-dedicated-homekit-app-in-ios-10-is-exactly-what-apple-needs\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[852,2786,803,1472,725],"class_list":["post-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-apple","tag-homekit","tag-mobile","tag-smart-home","tag-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}