HomeView Has No App Store. Its Third-Party Apps Come From the Car Dashboard.
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The $299 Apple HomeView launched this week with a beautiful 7-inch Liquid Retina display, an A18 chip, and Siri AI. What it did not launch with: an App Store. The Dashboard Constraint Instead, the only pathway for third-party apps on HomeView runs through CarPlay — the same framework Apple built for the car dashboard. Apple’s own developer page confirms it: “CarPlay audio and video apps also work on Apple HomeView without requiring you to make any modifications to your app.” That sounds convenient until you realize what it actually means: the apps that show up on your kitchen counter hub…
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