It may be tempting to frame this in an nefarious way. I think it’s far more likely that support for HomeKit without iCloud was never formally defined. Earlier teams tasked with developing HomeKit probably had some pride in their work and developed it with as few dependencies as possible, whereas I say no evidence of pride in any recent Apple software development.
Right now, I’m typing this on my iPhone in Safari, and the dark keyboard overlay has a rounded edge which is different to the rounded edge of the light grey background (and of the phone screen itself). It looks like amateur hour. I see no evidence of pride in anything Apple has made recently.
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It may be tempting to frame this in an nefarious way. I think it’s far more likely that support for HomeKit without iCloud was never formally defined. Earlier teams tasked with developing HomeKit probably had some pride in their work and developed it with as few dependencies as possible, whereas I say no evidence of pride in any recent Apple software development.
Right now, I’m typing this on my iPhone in Safari, and the dark keyboard overlay has a rounded edge which is different to the rounded edge of the light grey background (and of the phone screen itself). It looks like amateur hour. I see no evidence of pride in anything Apple has made recently.