How Philips Hue got the smart home right

飞利浦 Hue 是如何做对智能家居的

The state of the smart home can be frustrating, because it is just so obvious how things ought to work. You should be able to control everything from everywhere. Your spaces should adapt to what you’re doing and how you’re feeling. Making your home smart shouldn’t require renovating, and the smarts should be mostly invisible. All of this is, of course, incredibly hard to pull off — but the goal is pretty clear.

智能家居的现状有时令人沮丧，因为人们对于它“应该如何运作”有着非常清晰的认知。你应该能够随时随地控制一切；你的居住空间应该根据你的行为和心情进行调整；让家庭变得智能不应该需要大兴土木进行翻新，且这些智能功能在大多数时候应该是隐形的。当然，实现这一切极其困难，但目标是非常明确的。

Until now, maybe no product has come closer to nailing the smart home than Philips Hue. And on this episode of Version History, we dig into all the things Hue got right. The Verge’s David Pierce and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy are joined by smart home journalist and expert Richard Gunther to discuss Hue’s origins, which have an awful lot to do with the rise of the smartphone. They also talk about Hue’s early embrace of practically every smart home platform, its somewhat shocking price tag, and what it takes to make a smart device that actually just… works.

到目前为止，或许还没有哪款产品比飞利浦 Hue 更接近“完美智能家居”的定义。在本期《Version History》播客中，我们将深入探讨 Hue 做对的所有事情。The Verge 的 David Pierce 和 Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 邀请了智能家居记者兼专家 Richard Gunther，共同讨论 Hue 的起源——这与智能手机的兴起有着千丝万缕的联系。他们还谈到了 Hue 早期对几乎所有智能家居平台的兼容支持、其令人咋舌的定价，以及打造一款真正“好用”的智能设备究竟需要什么。

This is the fifth (and next to last) episode of the fourth season of Version History. If you haven’t yet checked out the story of the Harmony remote, the Roomba vacuum, the Nest thermostat, or the Keurig coffee maker, make sure you catch up! It’s smart home season this season, and there’s so much to get into.

这是《Version History》第四季的第五集（倒数第二集）。如果你还没有听过关于 Harmony 遥控器、Roomba 扫地机器人、Nest 恒温器或 Keurig 咖啡机的往期节目，一定要补上！本季的主题是智能家居，有太多值得深入探讨的内容了。