All eyes are on Apple with or without the HomeKit. Last September, Apple filed a trademark application for a HomeKit icon which could be used for a dedicated app from which iOS users can control all of their various HomeKit apps.
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“As I work in marketing for Apple, we test many Smart Home devices, especially for iOS HomeKit integration …” While company previously denied interest in developing a HomeKit app, it filed for a trademark of a HomeKit app icon past year – a move that shows it has, at least, been thinking about HomeKit.
Apple’s 2016 will be a year brimming with new products and services, and one of them is bundled with the iOS 10 operating system. It also seems that Apple’s own marketing team thinks it’s OK to spill the beans on unannounced apps in public forums-which could be a slip up, or a controlled leak to let frustrated HomeKit users know some of their complaints are being addressed. One of those things is a HomeKit application.
Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference starts on June 13 and we’ll most likely see previews of iOS 10 and OS X 10.12. Besides using this for comfort, the app could create the illusion that someone is living inside a house even when it is vacant. But may be finally and once and for all, Apple might have finally listened to its customers and might soon have its own official HomeKit app, available starting iOS 10.
Word of the new app came from an Apple marketing employee commenting in Amazon product reviews. Podcasts is one example: no Notification Center widget (which is fine) and no Apple Watch app (which is sorely needed).
Third-party HomeKit controllers have other benefits as well. Instead of using applications such as Yonomi and Home separately, iOS 10 will cater to the needs by carrying Apple’s very own HomeKit that will join all the controls together. Currently, users can not control all smart appliances through one app; instead, they have to download more than one iOS app or use third-party apps on different devices to control the Smart Home appliances.
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Hesperus already works this way. It unfortunately may require a neighborhood of HomeKit apps to have the best experience for now.
