Stratechery: From AirPort to HomeView — Do You Still Trust Apple's Smart Home?
Stratechery · rss · 2026-10-19
Stratechery's "Do You Trust Apple?" opens with Jobs' 1999 iBook/AirPort wireless demo (11Mbps 802.11 with Lucent, privacy-forward), arguing Apple's ease-of-use-plus-privacy pitch never changed. On the new HomeView smart-home display, Ben Thompson counters John Gruber's skepticism: his Raspberry Pi DAKboard calendar is his family's most-used device, and persistent screens solve real thermostat/doorbell/camera pain. Bigger thesis: after a decade of Siri disappointment, AI lets you decompile or write your own software layer to work with agents—more exciting than waiting on Apple's APIs.
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