Following the HarmonyOS system, Apple will turn its attention to the field of smart home, and HomeOS will also appear in the near future.

Apple has a variety of products in the mobile device series. The smart watch is called "Apple Watch", the tablet computer is called iPad, and the notebook computer is called Macbook. For each of these categories, Apple has a separate operating system.

From tablet computers a few years ago to smart watches in recent years, the world is developing towards smart home devices. A few days ago, Huawei's HarmonyOS system was launched, which attracted much attention! Apple also plans to launch IOT devices, and they will use Apple HomeOS on these devices. Here, let's talk about what Apple HomeOS is and how to update it and every detail of it.

A few days ago, a photo advertisement on Apple's website caused a heated discussion. "iOS, watchOS, tvOS and homes" are mentioned in job advertisements, among which the home system is first mentioned. The recruitment information is as follows:

Just like WatchOS and tvOS, HomeOS is an operating system specially designed for Apple smart home devices.

Apple's current strategy has developed over time. After seeing that the current business growth of iPhone is unlikely to reproduce the company's past glory, Apple's decision to develop its own smart home products is an inevitable strategic shift.

Apple found that these different devices can provide different consumer experiences. So, although it is simple to put these devices in your home, the whole home can't become smarter.

Nowadays, smart home products look a bit confusing in use. It consists of many applications, and Apple tries to manage it uniformly in the whole rather opaque home application. Therefore, there is an urgent need for a smart home management system, which relies on suppliers such as Apple Music, products corresponding to Apple TV or HomePod, third-party intelligent units and applied science to achieve seamless interconnection. Apple's HomeKit needs to become a mature intelligent building operating system in order to realize a vibrant smart home platform.

In my opinion, this seems to be a natural extension of Apple's use of HomeKit (highly secure smart home management system). Therefore, it is logical for HomeKit to be renamed as an independent operating system, which is homeOS. It can not only stimulate faster product development, but also enable developers to build more powerful systems. Any information collected by these systems is processed on the device.

This will also enable developers to make more constructive use of other powerful Apple technologies-machine intelligence, visual intelligence and so on. Creating a complete homeOS system will also enable Apple to cultivate a more dynamic HomeKit market, while avoiding the inevitable problems surrounding market dominance.

However, the concept of smart home has not yet developed into a market reality. I believe this is the goal that homeOS needs to work hard for.

This is an operating system that we still know nothing about, but as the developer Joan Lluís Díaz discovered, Cupertino is already running in it.

The most interesting thing is that just a few days before WWDC 202 1 started, there was a message about homeOS, which made us think that Apple would show it at the developer conference next week. Otherwise, if this is a longer-term project, the person in charge of posting the recruitment notice will be very careful and will not explicitly mention it in the recruitment notice.

However, the question now is which devices HomeOS will be used for. We can imagine two options. The first one is, of course, HomePod Mini, a smart speaker launched by Apple last year. After stopping the production of HomePod, Apple concentrated all its energy, and HomePod is still sold in Apple's online store.

Another possibility is related to HomeKit, Apple's system for managing smart devices, which may be redesigned and renamed soon. However, since HomeKit is not an operating system, but a framework for device interconnection, homeOS should redesign HomeKit, otherwise it will not be listed with iOS and WatchOS. In this case, only major changes can justify the renaming.

It should be noted that Apple pays more attention to the support of old devices and the good service between different generations of devices. Even software with a new name, such as iPadOS, is based on the previous solution and can be used by people who owned the device a few years ago.

The same thing may happen to the homeOS. More and more people think that the new operating system will be announced at the next WWDC meeting. We can provide early software, including HomePod stereo for sale.

However, by changing the name, we will see a clearer update of the current software. In addition, it has been pointed out that homeOS may be a general-purpose system integrating Apple TV box and HomePod speaker.

Apple WWDC conference will begin on June 7th. Cook's company may launch HomeOS, an operating system that will be installed on HomePod stereo. Recently, iOS has been divided into two different versions. The first one, called iOS, is designed for the iPhone. The second is iPadOS, which, as the name implies, is aimed at tablets. However, despite these changes, Apple's team is still committed to making its software more unified. One goal is to bring the iPhone and iPad closer to Mac computers. In fact, in many ways, iOS and iPadOS are the same product, although they each have a set of functions designed for a specific platform.

HomePod's audio operating system may soon face the same fate. It will be given a new name, although the most important part of the code will not be rebuilt.

Up to now, it is not clear which devices will be used with homes, but we can expect Apple to launch the first smart home device in the upcoming autumn activities this year. It is believed that this latest Apple OS can provide power for home audio and Internet of Things tools to control your home lighting and safety. This may be Apple's products in the following areas:

Up to now, homes 1.0 is the latest version.

Huawei took the lead in launching the HarmonyOS system, and Huawei said that the HarmonyOS system has no intention of replacing Android or iOS. On the contrary, it has a wider range of applications, not only supporting mobile phones and tablets, but also supporting more and more smart devices. To this end, Huawei has been trying to attract hardware and home appliance manufacturers to join its ecosystem. Up to now, more than 500,000 developers have developed applications based on HarmonyOS operating system. Yesterday, it was even reported that Huawei had donated the open source HarmonyOS system to the Open Atomic Open Source Foundation of the State Commission for Industry and Information Technology for free. It is expected that with the vigorous promotion of the country, more enterprises and equipment will adopt HarmonyOS system, and it should be no problem to break through the so-called 16% life-and-death line.

Let's take a look at Apple's HarmonyOS system. Its development obviously lags behind the system of HarmonyOS, and it is in a catching-up position. However, with a lot of application support and good ecological support, the development will be very rapid. It can be expected that there will be a fierce competition in the field of smart home, but this time it will catch up with Apple and Google.