You think Apple would let LG write software for Apple branded products?

As far as I can tell, the only reason Apple's walled garden protects your privacy is because it's way more valuable that way.

...your information though, not the product. They'll sell you out if they get the right MBA.

Yeah, we use this kind of stuff and so do most of our friends. Makes it really convenient when you go on vacations, want to let friends into the house, want to check on it, want temps to automatically adjust back to normal when your plane touches down in town, etc.

Smart doorbells and thermostats are popular.

Smart door locks are mostly an AirBnB / rental cabin thing.

Waste of time and money.

Homekit is dodgy, for some strange reason stuff randomly disconnects from the network here and there, and require a hard reset every so often.

No idea why but homekit sometimes fails to see some devices, but the manuf app is able to work with them.

Siri is also pretty dumb, for example "Turn off Lights" isnt smart enough to turn off any lights that are on. One must say "Turn of ALL lights".

Half of my friends in Poland and elsewhere in UK and EU do.

you mean continues...

What have they really created since steve jobs?

But what if your neighbor gives LG access to his internet?

An LG device in your home could potentially hop through it for snooping and fw updates.