Who is HomeView For? Apple’s Fight for the Smart Home, Anthropic Thinks Claude Has Feelings

Stephen Robles (0:00)

This is my house, I have to defend it.

Welcome to Primary Technology, the show about the tech news that matters. It was a big Apple Experience event week. We're gonna get in depth on HomeView, the new Apple Home Collection with accessories from LG and Schneider, new Apple TV 4K, man, that thing is expensive, HomePod Mini 2, plus you can't be mean to Claude anymore, so says Anthropic, YouTube Music is gonna label music as AI and more. This episode is brought to you by SerpAPI, Ramp, Origin, and you, the members who support us directly. I'm one of your hosts with three HomeViews on the way. Joined by my co-host, Jason. How's it going, Jason?

Jason Aten (0:37)

I have zero HomeViews on the way. I just want to be clear. Mark, safe from buying a HomeView.

Stephen Robles (0:43)

You know, I said three and I was just thinking about it.

I think I bought two. I bought the desk version and the wall mount, but then I had to buy the separate wall mount. So that's the, I had three HomeView items, but just two HomeViews, that's just a correction. Listen, we're gonna get to HomeView. We'll just, just give us a second here. Two very exciting things. One, I have a shortcuts pillow. Have you seen this?

Jason Aten (1:03)

I don't think this is an exciting thing. This is just a shameless plug.

Stephen Robles (1:06)

No, this is an exciting thing for me. Well, also, I think this is when it's coming out. I was, I'm going to be on the Vergecast again.

David, David Pierce hit me up. He asked me to come on to talk. And so I think it comes out Monday. So be Eyes Peeled Monday for episode, but I troll David with this very shortcuts pillow and I was wearing a shortcuts shirt during the recording of that episode. So stay tuned, that's coming out Monday. And we might have some other exciting stuff on this show, special guests coming soon. So we will confirm later.

We need to get to HomeView. But real quick, WeatherDog87 from the USA gave us a five-star rating on Apple Podcast. Thank you so much for that. And Marcin in Poland, he has our polar bear knight. I always say it the wrong way. I always mean to say knight riding a polar bear.

But I always start with the polar bear riding a knight and I don't want to say that. But anyway, he has our medieval knight riding a polar bear in Poland. So very cool for that. And he actually has worked on making an app for a long time. And I wanted to plug it. This is not a VibeCoded app. This is an app that he learned Swift and spent a long time figuring, learning to be a developer. And he made MixSnake. It's a free app on the Mac. And if you are nostalgic for the old school snake game, you could download it for free. Just a casual game. And that is super fun. So thank you, Marcen, for the picture and also for the game. You should check it out.

Jason Aten (2:25)

You should. Can I say one thing about VibeCoded apps real quick? And this will be quick.

Stephen Robles (2:28)

Sure, sure. We'll talk about it later as well.

Jason Aten (2:30)

Oh, we do? Well, I want to talk about my apps. No, you say it now. Okay. I just have discovered the biggest pitfall of VibeCoding an app, which is people will send you a lot of feature requests. And when you take the time to respond and say, I don't actually think that that's a... Like, here's why I probably won't do that. I'm like, dude, just ask Claude to do it. It's not that big of a deal. And I'm like, you don't understand.

Just because it wouldn't be hard to implement that feature doesn't mean it would be a good idea. Just because you could doesn't mean you should.

Stephen Robles (3:02)

That is a great point. I actually talk about that with David on Monday a little bit. And so that's a good plug. And we'll talk about VibeCoded apps later as well, because yeah, it got a lot. And one other follow-up, I mentioned last week, we're up for a Signal Award and voting ends tomorrow. If you listen to this episode when it comes out on Thursday.

So go vote if you haven't yet. We are up for best co-host team, which I so hope we win the best co-host team.

Jason Aten (3:26)

That would be amazing.

Stephen Robles (3:27)

That would be amazing. But you can go vote for Primary Technology in the best podcast category, best tech podcast, and the best co-host team. I don't know if this visual is representative of the amount of votes shows are getting.