Does anyone know what the Apple Home upgrade actually does? Specifically what does blurb mean? I can’t find any information on this. Has Apple unlearned how to sell things to people?
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 08:53:30 JST Thomas 🔭✨
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groxx (groxx@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 09:05:59 JST groxx
@thomasfuchs presumably it upgrades the architecture of your home.
Maybe it puts in new windows? A more efficient fridge?
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 09:10:45 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@Cdespinosa thanks, that’s helpful. They’re really not doing a good job explaining why I want to update.
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Chris Espinosa (cdespinosa@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 09:10:48 JST Chris Espinosa
@thomasfuchs Here’s a good overview: https://www.homekithelper.net/tips/ios-16-matter-thread-new-architecture
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 09:22:43 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@Cdespinosa I get now after reading the third party article.
It wouldn’t have hurt Apple to say something like “fewer and shorter ‘Updating’ messages in Home” etc.
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Chris Espinosa (cdespinosa@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 09:22:44 JST Chris Espinosa
@thomasfuchs The primary things you’ll see on upgrade are that it’s more reliable and more efficient, as the support article says. The new architecture doesn’t expose any specific new features.
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feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 09:57:13 JST feld
Upgrades to a protocol that all the vendors are converging on. If you have other integrations like Homebridge it still works In conversation permalink -
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feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 09:58:34 JST feld
https://www.macworld.com/article/829956/apple-smart-home-homekit-thread-matter.html
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 10:09:47 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@jason no, it was rolled out with iOS 16.4 in February
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Jason Petersen (he) (jason@logoff.website)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 10:09:48 JST Jason Petersen (he)
@thomasfuchs wasn’t this rolled out like two years ago
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 10:12:15 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@Charles I’m not using Siri because Apple doesn’t understand that people with accents exist.
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CharlieG (charles@gascoigne.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 10:12:48 JST CharlieG
@thomasfuchs It still doesn’t fix Siri not always being able to access devices that are working perfectly well in the Home app, but why would they fix Siri?
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 12:24:30 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@medievalist No, it’s not, Matter support is different from the architecture update and the UI changes are different from both.
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Lisa L. Spangenberg (medievalist@writing.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 12:24:32 JST Lisa L. Spangenberg
@thomasfuchs It's about support for the Matter standard https://developer.apple.com/apple-home/matter/ There are UI changes but I can't remember what
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 12:25:02 JST Thomas 🔭✨
They have absolutely confusing communication about this. :(
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Jesper Kamstrup Linnet (jesper_linnet@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 19:10:00 JST Jesper Kamstrup Linnet
@thomasfuchs They definitely still know how to sell things. As I understand the upgrade, a home hub is now required (at least that’s what it claimed when I tried the upgrade). If you don’t have a HomePod or an Apple TV, you’ll need to do some shopping😀
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