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HomeView will rely on CarPlay apps to make up for some deficiencies

Apple’s use of CarPlay APIs for the HomeView is a strange compromise, is putting developers in a tough spot, and there’s good reason to question how useful it will be.

Square smart home display on a cylindrical speaker showing clock, camera feed, play button, lights, fan, intercom, good morning scene, and door lock controls on a clean white background
It won’t look like this, but HomeView will run CarPlay apps – image credit: Apple

You’re not likely to need any of the dozens of parking apps that litter the App Store on your HomeView. And presumably you’ll never need to access your car’s app, but there may be some interesting use cases there, depending.

But beyond that, there is more. It’s tempting to say there is a world of possible CarPlay apps that are suddenly able to run on HomeView.

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