{"id":680,"date":"2014-10-26T09:08:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T15:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.iachieved.it\/iachievedit\/?p=680"},"modified":"2014-10-26T09:08:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T15:08:12","slug":"homekit-not-likely-ready-until-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.iachieved.it\/iachievedit\/homekit-not-likely-ready-until-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"HomeKit Not Likely Ready Until 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Gomer Pyle <i>Surprise, surprise!<\/i> category, Mashable.com posts an article surmising that Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/homekit\/\">HomeKit<\/a> won&#8217;t be ready until <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2014\/10\/17\/apple-homekit-launch-2015\/\">2015<\/a>.  The reasons they list as possibilities as to why HomeKit will be delayed until next year are that &#8220;it takes time for developers and manufacturers&#8221; to build new products and perhaps they want to release HomeKit and Apple Watch together.  The latter makes no sense to me, but as to the former, well, all I can say is that it takes a <i>real long time<\/i> for a developer to develop a product when working with incomplete and incorrect specifications, or specifications that change drastically <i>at the last minute<\/i> prior to the release of iOS 8.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve looked at HomeKit and it&#8217;s time to take a fresh look and get over the fact that there will likely be even more heartburn ahead trying to work with shifting specifications.  But yeah, I agree, HomeKit <i>won&#8217;t<\/i> likely be ready this year for the average user, or developer for that matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Gomer Pyle Surprise, surprise! category, Mashable.com posts an article surmising that Apple HomeKit won&#8217;t be ready until 2015. The reasons they list as possibilities as to why HomeKit will be delayed until next year are that &#8220;it takes time for developers and manufacturers&#8221; to build new products and perhaps they want to release [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.iachieved.it\/iachievedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.iachieved.it\/iachievedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.iachieved.it\/iachievedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.iachieved.it\/iachievedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.iachieved.it\/iachievedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dev.iachieved.it\/iachievedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/dev.iachieved.it\/iachievedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.iachieved.it\/iachievedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.iachieved.it\/iachievedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.iachieved.it\/iachievedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}