by iOS 8 is coming for your house. One of the many new developer tools Apple unveiled Monday at the Worldwide Developer Conference is HomeKit, a new suite of tools that will let the makers of smart home products integrate their wares more deeply into Apple’s mobile OS.
HomeKit is notable for what it isn’t. Apple didn’t pick one standard protocol for the industry to rally behind (at least not yet), like the way the company pushed adoption of USB by building it into the iMac. Apple didn’t announce its own hub or gadget, like the Revolv, to bridge multiple device protocols. HomeKit isn’t a single app on iOS, like Health or Passbook.
Hey, Siri, control my house
Right now, most connected-home products worth their salt can be controlled by an iOS app, but users have to navigate to that app and open it to do anything.
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