Where Does HomeView Fall Short?
The HomeView, it was rumored, was sitting in Apple warehouses for quite a while. The hardware was created and readied a long time ago, while Apple waited for Siri to get better. If that is true, perhaps it is also true that Apple just let the device sit in the warehouses without doing any other software improvements besides Siri. That may explains why there are still so many low-hanging fruits that could have make the device better.
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge:
The option to turn off some personal features on the HomeView, a few more functional widgets and apps, and better options for displaying shared personal content like calendars could bring HomeView closer to the family computer I’d like it to be.
Jason Snell, Six Colors
All of this is really unsurprising when you consider that this is an interface welded together from disparate parts of other Apple products, but it feels like it needs some more tweaking and attention for it to fully come together.
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Links:
- Apple’s HomeView is My New Favorite Smart Display — But not My Daughter’s, by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge
- Homeview Review: A Late Arrival, Still Showing Some Seams, by Jason Snell, Six Colors
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