Apple's HomeView criticized: a camera-first smart home that locked out the best features
BecauseCulture · x · 2026-10-15
The author argues Apple could have cherry-picked the best of Alexa and Google Home — Google's free ad-free model, native YouTube, universal casting, voice-driven automation, and Alexa's agentic Skills — instead HomeView went camera- and face-first ("CarPlay with facial recognition"), locking users into the ecosystem. The post also contrasts privacy approaches: Apple visual and discreet, Google/Amazon voice-first and communal. The author owns 13 Google Homes and misses the discontinued Connected Services (remote car start).
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