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Smart Home Diary: Planning to move home has given me a couple of new perspectives

<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/main2.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1000&h=500)</div><p>When you spend your life writing about technology, and have a lot of techy friends, you can fairly easily find yourself living inside a hi-tech bubble. Things like smart home technology can start to feel relatively mainstream, especially when companies like <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2017/05/23/ikea-smart-lighting-homekit-cheap-smart-bulbs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ikea[/url] are getting in on the action.</p>
<p>Prices have started to fall, with several commenters on a recent piece noting that even the market leading Philips Hue system has bulbs from $15, often discounted below that level.</p>
<p>We’re starting to see <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2017/05/12/homekit-home-tour/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">new homes[/url] being sold with HomeKit technology included as standard, companies are making the technology <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2017/05/15/philips-hue-white-ambiance-lamps-fixtures/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">easier to adopt[/url] with <a href="http://amzn.to/2qutuIg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">complete table lamps[/url] – and installers are <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2017/05/23/australia-notaa-homekit-installer-specialist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">setting up shop[/url] ready to do the hard work for you if it all seems a bit much for DIY.</p>
<p>But planning to move home has shown me just how far it all is from mainstream as far as the world at large is concerned …</p>
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