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    GET STARTED WITH… DEVICES THAT WORK WITH HOMEPOD

    by CLIFF JOSEPH Sep 08, 2017 3 minutes

    Better late than never, as the saying goes. It’s been frustrating, in recent months, to see Amazon’s Echo speaker and its Alexa voice assistant grabbing all the headlines, while Apple’s Siri and its HomeKit home-automation software sat glumly on the sidelines. The Echo was also getting all the attention from manufacturers of smart lighting systems, thermostats, security cameras, and all the other smart home devices that we cover here every month in Home Life.

    Apple’s original plan for the emerging home automation market was to use the Apple TV as its central smart home control

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