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Apple updates its smart home to catch up to Amazon and Google

Apple announced important updates for its digital assistant Siri, the HomeKit smart home platform and the HomePod smart speaker at the company’s developer conference. Here’s a look at the state of Apple’s smart home following the updates. We also grade each announcement on its excitement factor from 1 to 5. Apple didn’t give us the…

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Apple announced important updates for its digital assistant Siri, the HomeKit smart home platform and the HomePod smart speaker at the company’s developer conference. Here’s a look at the state of Apple’s smart home following the updates.

We also grade each announcement on its excitement factor from 1 to 5. Apple didn’t give us the hardware we were hoping for, but it did maintain a foundation of privacy while slowly but surely gaining ground. Perhaps it’s doomed to remain in third place in the smart home, but Apple could be a sleeping giant, still putting the pieces together.

50 Comments

  1. Kú Đêm Gamer

    June 30, 2020 at 12:31 pm

    có ai việt nam cũng xem táo không?

  2. Toy Barreiros

    June 30, 2020 at 12:38 pm

    Siri could already translate sentences, but not in a conversation style

  3. Toy Barreiros

    June 30, 2020 at 12:42 pm

    Wait the homepod can finally listen to Spotify?

    • Johny1220

      June 30, 2020 at 12:49 pm

      Toy Barreiros yes lol

  4. Seano thegr81

    June 30, 2020 at 12:42 pm

    1/5 on the funny scale

    • Christian Moore

      June 30, 2020 at 4:46 pm

      I appreciate their effort but it just felt annoying, not funny.

  5. Petty Naj

    June 30, 2020 at 1:07 pm

    Stupid review. We all know it was a software related keynote. But he keeps talking about hardware. Sheesh

  6. Bharath J

    June 30, 2020 at 1:52 pm

    U need a haircut!

  7. DOCTOR J

    June 30, 2020 at 2:09 pm

    This dudes kitchen is bathroom sized

  8. Kourtney Kimbrel

    June 30, 2020 at 2:14 pm

    You’re so funny!

  9. Lawrence McClain

    June 30, 2020 at 2:36 pm

    Is this guy Armie Hammers cousin or something?! 😂😂 they look alike to me.

  10. Zack

    June 30, 2020 at 2:52 pm

    1/10 for your home office set up. Could have put a bit more effort into it. The echo is atrocious :/

  11. alex3261

    June 30, 2020 at 2:52 pm

    Siri got .”a big update” so many times and still Siri is as dumb as it was in the first day.
    The same thing with Alexa and Google Assistant, proving thet the much hyped AI is a mere sophisticated algorithm used mainly to mute humans in certain circumstances.

  12. paul069usa

    June 30, 2020 at 3:11 pm

    Terrible. CNET is getting more and more irrelevant. Unsubscribing.

  13. Plant Ster

    June 30, 2020 at 3:20 pm

    Get rid of that dumb haircut you buffoon…. or is it a groovy haircut that you young people are wearing nowadays??

  14. Justin credible

    June 30, 2020 at 3:34 pm

    apple charge big money for privacy but also have to buy tons of data from FB, amazon and google to get Siri working… people are naive that their info is private. people love the fact that apple is so big on privacy but is so willing to give privacy away on other platform only to buy back that info to get apple eco system working. This is a great business model charge big money for privacy, tell everyone we are so great at privacy and buy tons of your data on the cheap.

  15. David Lacasse

    June 30, 2020 at 4:27 pm

    Will I finally be able to cast to my google home from the Apple Music app or do I have to suffer using Spotify?

    • Teslamonger

      July 1, 2020 at 2:26 am

      “suffer using spotify”
      big thonk

  16. John Begay

    June 30, 2020 at 4:37 pm

    Stop with your bleak humor. You’re not funny.

  17. Jetfire725

    June 30, 2020 at 4:44 pm

    tldr: Apple is catching up with google but with more privacy.

    • toadlguy

      July 1, 2020 at 12:46 am

      Jetfire725 Not “more privacy” – “privacy”, but I agree!

    • Manny Money

      July 1, 2020 at 2:12 am

      Google is not private. Lmao

    • Alberto Madonna

      July 4, 2020 at 1:29 pm

      Privacy with the NSA XD

  18. Lukas Hagen

    June 30, 2020 at 5:03 pm

    Espetially Journalists should lay the way more emphasis on privacy and not just say: 2:00 “the extra privacy is a nice touch”. Isn’t it the task of Journalism to question the politics behind products and the effect on the global democracy? … As a deep believer in the need of journalism this makes me sad.

  19. LLCoolJo3l

    June 30, 2020 at 5:34 pm

    Echo!!!!

  20. Tech J 37

    June 30, 2020 at 5:54 pm

    Homekit is already better lol

  21. Danish Siddiqui

    June 30, 2020 at 6:14 pm

    From all the videos of CNET. This is by far the worst.. I will give this video and this stupid guy a 0.5 in excitometer (PS what a stupid word) and stop inventing words in a tech review. Smart people listen to CNET. This is not Fashion TV

  22. Adam Alexander

    June 30, 2020 at 6:57 pm

    Who cares?

  23. Jonathan Micele

    June 30, 2020 at 9:19 pm

    I didn’t even know there was update to HomeKit, everyone talks about iOS and iPad and macs

  24. Pano 360

    June 30, 2020 at 9:34 pm

    Google translate is way more powerful. It can translate from pictures or even liver translate from the camera.
    Bafflingly, Google Translate works better on the iPhone than on the Pixel 4.

    • Manny Money

      July 1, 2020 at 2:14 am

      More powerful doesn’t mean better. Many negotiations and travellers are offline sometimes. This translation from iOS is very useful and easy. Even those larn8ng a language. All offline

  25. Daniel Holland

    July 1, 2020 at 12:47 am

    I’m sure androids been doing that for years hah lol

  26. Sebastian Szefer

    July 1, 2020 at 1:53 am

    I wonder does Apple Translate sucks like google translate. As translating quality is terrible

  27. Manny Money

    July 1, 2020 at 2:16 am

    Homepod the size of Macintosh apple

  28. Jonathan William Bongard

    July 1, 2020 at 2:27 am

    Yea, not even close…

  29. SuaveLlaveBlog

    July 1, 2020 at 3:00 am

    This kitchen is painful to look at

  30. fordhouse8b

    July 1, 2020 at 3:13 am

    Why are they telling us how many more facts Siri will know than it did THREE YEARS AGO? All that matters today is how many more facts Siri will know than it does TODAY. Because today, Siri still kind of sucks.

  31. ReaLife HD

    July 1, 2020 at 3:40 am

    They should reinvent the HomePod.

  32. kwfown

    July 1, 2020 at 4:24 am

    I’m waist deep with tech that integrates to Google, and have created routine customized to mine; too exhausting to adapt to a new system, even though I’m charging my iPhone, wearing my iWatch, have Apple TV running in the background, and typing this message on my iPad…

  33. Jay Garcia

    July 1, 2020 at 5:21 am

    Stick to phones & computers please….😒😒😒

  34. Ralph Barbagallo

    July 1, 2020 at 7:01 am

    Can they fix the part where my HomeKit hubs disconnect and become unresponsive until I factory reset them every 4 months?

  35. joeylondonxo

    July 1, 2020 at 6:14 pm

    All that money and Apple is trying to catch up with smart home devices? What is that even about? They’re like the top mobile phone, tablet and computer sellers… I’ll never get it. People come into the store I work for and purchase Google products because they felt like Apple and Amazon weren’t meeting their needs.

  36. Andrew

    July 1, 2020 at 11:29 pm

    Siri is still hot garbage

  37. Michael Crumpton

    July 2, 2020 at 9:34 pm

    When you look at what you can do with $100 with the echo ecosystem vs the overpriced HomeKit ecosystem it is just plain embarrassing. I can get 4 smart switches for the Echo for about $20, while in HomeKit land it will get you ½ of one. You could outfit your whole house for less than $200 in the echo world including smart plugs and bulbs everywhere and Wyze door sensors and cameras. Amazing.
    I read an article a while ago about how Amazon’s question when offering a product is how little can we charge and still make a profit, so we dominate the market share, while Apple asks what is the most we can charge for this, and dominates the profit margin.

  38. Video Biker

    July 2, 2020 at 11:16 pm

    You’re doing really well, you just need to hone your delivery/comedic skills 👍👍

  39. Toby

    July 3, 2020 at 11:35 am

    Homepod isn’t really an Alexa competitor, its more like a sonos system

    • Hilal Younus

      July 4, 2020 at 1:49 pm

      True

  40. Gunn Wibisono

    July 4, 2020 at 3:29 am

    Siri still can’t understand accents. Such my english, I am indonesian, Javanese accent and ethnicity, Google and Amazon understand clearly on my english, but I fail on Siri, even though my ecosystem is apple, I still use Alexa to handle my smart home.

  41. Mark B

    July 4, 2020 at 11:54 am

    Loss the beard.

  42. Travelling Light Photography

    July 5, 2020 at 10:34 pm

    Does anyone actually use this? Nothing much is available for it here so it’s pretty much no use at all. Siri just seems pointless, doing nothing I can’t already do without it.

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