Expand Its Smart Home Abilities & Support
Compared to Alexa and Google Assistant, Siri and HomeKit fall behind on smart home controls. Even though Apple has made improvements, like removing the specialized chip requirement for HomeKit support, there’s still progress to be made.
There are a number of ways Apple could do better in this area. For one, it needs to embrace the most important factor of smart home infrastructure: universality. Smart homes, when at their best, should be able to be controlled on any device, using any platform or digital assistant.
Similarly, Apple’s security standards are the strictest in the business, which means that manufacturers don’t deploy HomeKit-compatible devices as quickly. Security is great, but the list of devices supported by HomeKit will always lag behind competitors unless some type of compromise is made.