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Ever wonder why there are so few HomeKit devices on the market? It's not any absurd Apple licensing this time... it is that the Accessory Development Kit / Software Development Kit (adk/sdk) is such a land of broken toys, that's why.

The base install per the guide on the Raspberry PI as a prototyping system system is a complete cluster fuck. The install itself breaks all over the place. Clearly these people are not embedded firmware engineers.

They could have just created a ready-to-go Raspberry PI disk image that you master over to a microSD card but noooo...

(They should be put on an island and work on embedded missile firmware. Those that are still breathing in 6 months might be real firmware engineers and not script kiddies.)

If you ever manage to get their garbage to actually work with the bags of shitty tools approach to a "dev stack" ... you should seriously be awarded a Nobel prize for patience and dedication.

The Made for 'i' (whatever the fuck 'i' stands for in MFi) is really "Made For Idiots" or "Mother Fucking Interface".

<https://mfi.apple.com/en/...>

Bunch of fucking bureaucrats more worried about certification and use of logos than product development.

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    I think it's also because Apple have never really penetrated the HA market. Amazon is out front by a long way, Google is a tad behind, then everything else is barely worth considering.

    Even if it was a decent Dev experience, that still makes it unlikely to gain much traction in my book.
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    @AlmondSauce If you mean that the shitty dev tools resulted in the the lack of market penetration because it holds product development back, could not agree more. If you are saying that the lack of market penetration caused shitty tools (maybe because of underfunded group based upon market), I'd say "hmm... could be rabbit!"
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