Goldman Sachs, the bank Apple uses to provide banking products, does not offer consumer banking services outside the US. Banking is a very regulated industry, so does not translate well across borders. This is why having (say) a TD Bank account in Canada does not mean that you can transparently withdraw from it from a TD Bank US branch; you have to have a separate US account, and transfer the funds between.
Apple will only offer its card (and now savings account) outside the US if and when it can find a partner that is willing to do what it has persuaded Goldman Sachs to provide in the US, the high interest rate we're discussing being one example, and it thinks doing so will be worthwhile in terms of addressable market and potential profit. This means that a) most countries will never get Apple financial products, and b) it's quite possible that Apple Card will never be available outside the US, not even in fellow high-income countries with comparable iPhone adoption rates.
We will have standard home integrations (Google Home, Apple Homekit, likely implemented via Matter standard). Using those you can set temperature easily, however to have deeper insight into system state, energy use, air quality, you'd have to use the app. We could also set up the thermostat so it can be used standalone - no app integration.
I am still using my iPod classic 6th gen 160 GB. Almost everyday. It is wonderful to have a single purpose device for listing to music, podcasts, or audiobooks.
I usually blog/link to; about user experience and privacy.
Want to do the 100 days to offload challenge this year. To force myself a bit to write and learn how to write better.
WIP.. still looking through my archives of old blogs and post on other websites (forums that are long gone, social bookmarking services etc) to add to my website retrospectively.
Using Hugo as static site generator and hosted on Netlify.
(2022)