Do You Trust Apple?
Do You Trust Apple?
Thompson starts with Apple’s old AirPort partnership to explain its advantage: making another company’s technology easy to use as part of one system. His own family display gets daily use, while his thermostats, doorbells and cameras sometimes disconnect or are hard to reach. That makes a shared household screen and accessories designed with Apple’s partners more compelling to him than their launch video suggests. He trusts Apple more than a collection of device makers to integrate the pieces and protect household data.
He then asks whether that trust extends to continued support and the voice interface. Apple stopped making AirPort routers; recording history for the new cameras depends on iCloud+; and, in his experience, Siri AI is slower and less dependable on simple tasks than the old Siri, while other agents can do more. Installing a display, lock or camera is a longer commitment than trying an app. Thompson prefers to make custom software with his own agent rather than make Siri the primary route into his home, though he thinks most households would value someone else taking responsibility for integration.
Apple confirms that its LG and Schneider accessories are planned to start arriving in December, with no separate vendor app or account but control through Apple Home and paid iCloud+ for camera history. HomeView is scheduled for November 13; its beta Siri can handle general questions on the device, but personal context needs a paired eligible iPhone or iPad. Those are announced boundaries, not evidence of reliability in households. Thompson’s comparison of Siri with other agents is his assessment, not a controlled test; his own frequent-use display and flaky devices are not a trial of Apple’s unreleased combination. This is a product-and-maintenance argument, not evidence that agent-built prototypes should become team production code.