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Apple doe sn’t want toVadmit it ,but HomeKit has fallen way behind Amazon and Google

Vice president of Worldwide Marketing at Apple, Phil Schiller’s explanation for the introduction of the HomePod speaker was simple: “We love music,” he said. He then went into loving detail about the HomePod’s great sound, its “seven beamforming tweeters,” and “real-time acoustic modeling.”

Then, right at the end of its introduction at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), he casually mentioned that the HomePod also works with Apple’s HomeKit platform and the Home app in iOS 10. This is the real key: Building HomeKit into the HomePod means that Apple finally has a voice-controlled smart assistant that can compete with Amazon Echo and Google Home.

Apple doesn’t want to admit it, but HomeKit has fallen way behind Amazon