Opinion: Rumored iOS 10 HomeKit app is welcomed, but alternatives have a healthy head start
Since HomeKit was introduced with iOS 8, one major missing piece from Apple’s home automation effort has been a built-in app that provides a user interface to the underlying framework. Interacting with Siri is the only Apple-supplied HomeKit UI; users rely on third-party apps instead for all visual HomeKit management. The downside to this approach is that there isn’t…