Hi Marty,
It’s been over a year since my last message here asking for Apple HomeKit integration. As a CIO, I definitely understand the technical and financial hurdles associated with reworking a platform, especially those necessary to integrate with the security and technical requirements imposed by Apple. Your reply made sense at the time.
That said, however, Emporia needs to be aware that it has been losing market share to its competition as time passes because nearly every other smart outlet on the market offers HomeKit (or Alexa) integration. One of the only “protection” that Emporia enjoys to hold onto marketplace share is that it offers energy monitoring, but now that’s changing too, and there are new products available on the market which allow energy monitoring, as well as device power control, all manageable through HomeKit.
Emporia has a superior product (in my opinion), but at some point it will need to reverse what seems to be myopic decision to avoid HomeKit, and reconsider a redesign that embraces HomeKit, or consider parallel launch of a Homekit (Google/Alexa) compatible firmware/software (hardware?) product if it wants to remain competitive, or even increase market share. What are your thoughts?
Regards,
Vito
