The HomeView App Dilemma
It has been a couple of days since Apple announced its new smart home device, raising fresh questions about the Apple HomeView. The device features substantial computing power, remains constantly connected to power, and appears well-suited to run various applications. Yet, the HomeView relies almost entirely on CarPlay.
Apple’s HomeView has an app problem
On The Vergecast: Relying on CarPlay, slinking back to X, competing with Muse, and much more.
On this episode of The Vergecast, David and Nilay try to make sense of the HomeView’s app situation, and why Apple would choose not to make its home hub into its own app platform. After that, they talk about the latest Gemini model and whether building the best model matters if you can’t build the best products around it. They then debate the merits of returning to X, why none of the supposed Twitter replacements worked, the latest in Brendan Carr nonsense, and much more.
In case you missed it this week: We also talked about the rest of the HomeView launch news, the first big AI slop case, and how to live in a world filled with recording devices. And we want to hear all your thoughts about all of it! Call the Vergecast Hotline at 866-VERGE11, send us an email at vergecast@theverge.com, and tell us everything that’s on your mind. And make sure you subscribe so you don’t miss an episode!
