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Apple launched HomeKit in 2014 — but took 11 years to make a doorbell!
HomeKit debuted at WWDC 2014, letting third-party devices connect to Apple. Ring launched in 2013 and was bought by Amazon for ~$1B in 2018. Apple's own competing doorbell arrives over a decade later.
MIT researchers envisioned the 'smart home' over 50 years ago!
MIT's Architecture Machine Group, led by Nicholas Negroponte in Cambridge, MA, pioneered 'responsive environment' concepts in the 1970s — decades before Amazon, Google, or Apple brought smart displays to market.