Are you starting your smart home or trying to decide between Amazon's Alexa or Apple's HomeKit and need help deciding? Here are my 5 reasons why I changed from an Amazon Alexa smart home to Apple's HomeKit smart home. I will still be using Echos, but my HomePods and HomePod Mini's. HomeKit has great features such as OS integration, Automations, the Home App, Security. Apple's HomeKit has grown a lot over the past 2 years. HomeKit has so many great features and will support the latest protocols. Apple is playing a big part in Matter and is the only one supporting Thread.

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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:58 - #1 OS Integration
03:13 - #2 Home App
05:42 - #3 Automations
08:55 - #4 Shortcuts
10:37 - Content Creators
11:00 - #5 Security & Protocols

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