Apple is cleaning its stores and starting to stop selling products that do not offer HomeKit compatibility. Although in the last keynotes of the company we have not seen that the home automation environment has been given great prominence, the truth is that we cannot rule out that 2016 is the year in which the renewals of the operating systems focus on bringing us news in this department.
Thus, at this time we can no longer find two of the electronic locks that the company sold in its establishments and on its online website. It's about the August Smart Lock and Kwikset Kevo Wireless-Enabled Deadbolt. Neither of these two products featured HomeKit integration. They are electronic locks that connect to our iPhones via Bluetooth.
No Apple spokesperson has confirmed that these two products have been recalled because they do not feature HomeKit, but the fact that the company continues to market the lock Hit Sense Smart Deadbolt, which does feature HomeKit, seems to confirm the news.
Another product that Apple has stopped marketing is the switch Belkin WeMo.
Apple wants to focus on home automation compatible with its ecosystem and that is why it has withdrawn these products. Hopefully 2016 is the year the company begins to power HomeKit and all compatible accessories.
