Apple’s HomePod Has Trouble Finding a Home
Apple’s entry into the smart speaker market wasn’t as stellar as the company had hoped. With low sales and inventory piling up at Apple store locations across the country, the tech giant has cut down on manufacturing orders for the HomePod. What happened? And does this mark the end of Apple’s foray into the Internet […]
What’s Next for IoT in 2018?
2017 has been a rollercoaster of a year for the Internet of Things (IoT). As the year comes to a close, IoT developers are still picking up the pieces from vicious hack attacks, and we’re still in the midst of an all-out smart home war between tech titans. With so much uncertainty in the air, […]
The Smart Home Arms Race Between Amazon and Google Is Heating Up
IoT developers, grab the popcorn. AI developers, bring the salt and butter. Get some good seats, because there’s a smart home battle brewing. Amazon, Google, and some of the other big names in tech are competing for their share of the smart home market. Regardless of who you’re rooting for, you won’t want to miss […]
Amazon Is Making Alexa-Connected Smart Glasses
The fizzled hype (and missed opportunity) of Google Glass remains fresh in memory. Of course, as we wrote a couple months ago, Google Glass has come back in a big way and found its niche in factories and warehouses. But as the buzz around augmented reality reaches fever pitch in the tech world, many Denver […]
The HomePod is Apple’s Smart Speaker (Emphasis on Speaker)
Most iPad app developers were expecting big news about a Siri speaker at this year’s WWDC, and that’s (sort of) what they got with yesterday’s announcement of the brand new HomePod. Apple developers and fanatics felt such an announcement was long overdue. While the Amazon Echo and Google Home have become surprise hits, pushing smart […]
What Can iOS App Developers Expect at This Year’s WWDC?
This year’s Apple Worldwide Developer Conference kicks off next week, and as always, iOS app developers are buzzing about what will be unveiled this year. Lately it seems that Apple has been taking a drubbing in the press for falling into a post-Jobs innovation slump, so the pressure is on this year to stir up […]
Amazon’s Echo Show Brings Video Phones to the Smart Home
According to a new Technalysis Research survey, a quarter of all homes in the U.S. have at least one smart home device. Of those households, 56% own a smart speaker, with 60% of those purchased in the last six months. So Amazon picked the exact right time to announce its Echo Show, a new version […]