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05-27-2014, 04:17 AM
5 Things Apple Can Bring to the Smart Home
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We're a week away from Apple (http://mashable.com/category/apple/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)'s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), and the rumors are in full force. Today's report from the Financial Times (http://mashable.com/2014/05/26/apple-smart-home-wwdc/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) that the company will aggressively enter the nascent field of the "Internet of Things" (IoT) with a proprietary smart home platform is the most solid rumor to date about what Apple will focus on at its annual software opus.
The news makes sense. Putting aside Google's game-changing acquisition of Nest (http://mashable.com/2014/02/12/google-nest-acquisition/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), which took competition in the IoT space to a new level (http://mashable.com/2014/01/14/google-nest-physical-graph/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Apple was already moving in this direction. With iBeacon tech**logy, Apple has already begun leveraging the iPhone as a device that interacts with its environment as opposed to a digital window that only comes alive when you're using it. In CarPlay, Apple already has a platform for extending apps to other devices. And the rumored iWatch (http://mashable.com/category/iwatch/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)will combine both concepts in a device that's even more personal than a smartphone. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/26/apple-smart-home/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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