Will the HomeView be Apple’s first smart home success?
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If Apple is finally shipping a named HomeView hub, expect them to treat the home as a first-class UX surface again — that pressures anyone building consumer experiences to assume an Apple-controlled orchestration layer in the living room and kitchen. If your product touches media, security, or utilities, you should be mapping how it behaves when HomeView is the default control screen.
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