Currently on the market we can find a large number of devices compatible with Apple's HomeKit communication protocol. But they are not all that are, due to the limitations that until now Apple has offered in its protocol, forcing users to install a specific piece of hardware that makes the device HomeKit compatible. Limitations that apparently with the arrival of iOS 11 will cease to exist, as announced by Apple in the last WWDC. Nest, from Alphabet (Google) is one of the most important and veteran manufacturers in this sector and the guys at 9to5Mac wanted to know the possibilities of the company's thermostats and surveillance cameras being integrated with HomeKit.
Being an Alphabet company, no one had ever bothered to ask if Nest company's products will ever be compatible with HomeKit, for obvious reasons, but the move Apple has made with HomeKit has many people wondering about compatibility. Nest with this protocol. According to Nest, the company is open to supporting HomeKit, a response that seems to confirm that sooner rather than later, users with this company's Goolge thermostats or cameras will be able to be available within the HomeKit platform, without having to resort to native Nest applications.
The HomeKit hardware authentication process has been the main barrier for which many manufacturers have not opted for this Apple platform, but thanks to the elimination of that barrier the market will begin to reach compatible products with this protocol, which will result in a general drop in prices in this type of products, which today are too expensive to become a regular element of our home.
A few days ago, at the presentation of its 4k resolution surveillance camera, the company stated that soon, lYour company's products would be compatible with Google Home, Amazon Echo and in theory also with the HomePod Apple, a device that will not hit the market until the end of this year only in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia.
