Apple HomeView, The New Apple TV, The App Story
Apple HomeView, The New Apple TV, The App Story
Thompson finds Apple’s HomeView pitch awkward: a shared family screen displays tasks and private information he thinks belong on a phone. He reads the new hands-free Apple TV as another bet on Siri in the home. The more promising direction, he argues, is Apple’s planned Home Collection: compatible locks, cameras and sensors configured through Apple Home, without a separate app and account for each manufacturer. He thinks an agent should make most individual apps disappear between the person and the hardware.
Apple’s own announcement sharpens the trade-off. HomeView can handle general questions without a personal phone, but private messages and calendar content need facial recognition and a recently unlocked paired device; personal-context requests require an AI-capable iPhone or iPad. The accessories still use Apple’s Home app, and HomeView supports apps. HomeView and the new Apple TV are scheduled for November 13; the accessories begin arriving in December. No household has yet established how these restrictions feel in regular use.
Thompson’s claim that Siri is less capable than alternative agents, and that this will constrain the market, is an assessment rather than a comparative test in this article. It is a useful interface-and-maintenance question, not a deployment trace of agent-built software or evidence of saved engineering work.