With Homepod Apple finally completed the smart home industry chain

OFweek smart home network news compared to the previous cover, Apple in the General Assembly fully liberalized itself.

In the past, Apple has used its related applications and functions to highlight its own artificial intelligence attributes, such as the new smart home application Homekit in iOS10, and album management, which relies on image recognition technology. However, uncharacteristically, at the recently held WWDC conference, Apple made a very high profile announcement that it will open up artificial intelligence and augmented reality development platforms Core ML and ARKit to developers.

According to Craig Federighi, Apple's software director and senior vice president, the Core ML platform includes a visual API for facial recognition and a natural language processing API to support deep neural networks, recurrent neural networks, convolutional neural networks, support vector machines, and tree integration. Linear model.

It is worth noting that, in addition to developers, ordinary consumers will also enjoy the benefits brought by the Core ML platform. Because of the existence of Core ML platform, the execution speed of AI tasks on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch will be greatly accelerated. According to Apple at the press conference, in terms of image recognition, the speed of the iPhone will be six times that of Google Pixel.

In addition to artificial intelligence, Apple also generously announced to people and opened its own AR development platform ARKit. This is Apple's first foray into the AR field. Although the final result is not the AR glasses that people have been guessing and expecting before, but the release of this platform has also brought people no small surprise! From the display of the conference, Apple seems to be hoping to use this technology in the game.

Of course, not only software, but also on the hardware, Apple also revealed some plans for AR. In operation, ARKit makes full use of the iPhone and iPad cameras, mobile sensors, and their CPUs and GPUs. Federighi also announced at the conference that hundreds of millions of iPhones will support ARKit, and iOS has long been "the world's largest AR platform."

At the developer conference, the AI ​​and AR development platforms Core ML and ARKit were beyond our expectation. However, there is always one that is in line with what we expect, that is, following Apple Watch's new product, Apple's entry into the smart home. A hardware masterpiece - Smart Speaker Homepod.

Before Apple released the smart speaker, we had been thinking that it would compete with Amazon Echo and Google GoogleHome, and given that former Apple’s senior vice president of marketing Schiller had said that smart speakers should configure the screen, we have also guessed Apple smart speakers or Will have a groundbreaking piece of screen.

However, after the release, it can only be said that these two guesses are wrong. First, although Homepod is also an entrance to smart home control, its main function is not "smart home" but music. Its internal integration of Apple Music, the user can send instructions through Siri, and speakers can use Siri to identify and collect user preferences, and adjust and recommend music based on the user's interests. Second, although the size looks pretty petite and lovely, Homepod still continues the "restrat" ​​of other intelligent sound, and there is no more screen.

Of course, even if Apple's speakers unexpectedly played a "psychological card," this does not stop us from watching on the smart home market. The release of Homepod means that Apple has finally completed the smart home industry chain. From smart speakers, to Apple TV, to iPhone and iWatch, whether it is indoor or outdoor, or fixed or mobile, Apple will take care of it.

However, from the current product introduction point of view, Homepod is playing a "differentiated" competition, as to how the performance of the market, it remains to be seen. However, looking at the overall situation, homepods can attract mostly fruit powder or music-oriented families. In the absence of a third-party service, the erosion of the market will not be too fast.

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