Add Geographic Channel IFTTT What are the new ways to play?

Last week, IFTTT (download) announced on its official blog that its iOS client has added a new geographic channel, and that iOS users can bring themselves to or from a geographic area as an event trigger, bringing more interesting gameplay to their services. For readers unfamiliar with IFTTT, IFTTT's name is the abbreviation "If this Then". The user can connect a series of well-known network services by setting the event trigger condition "This" and the result of the event triggering "that" to make their network life more convenient. For example, I can set it up on Twitter when I mark a favorite picture on the Instagram (this). After the setup is complete, IFTTT will automatically complete the process without the hassle of manual sharing. Through the latest location channels, users can set up a number of settings, such as: set when you leave the company's address range automatically send messages to the family to tell the other side of their home, when they will be home automatically lit home intelligent lighting, and even Google Drive to keep track of how long you've spent at the company or home. Searching for "ios Location" on IFTTT's official page will find that IFTTT users have dug up about 100 game locations related to iOS, but after careful browsing, most of them are actually boring. IFTTT's official Blog There are even user comments complaining that they have not activated their own smart lighting in the latest way, and I found in the test that IFTTT did not work the way I had set it. However, these flaws do not mean that IFTTT's new iOS location channel is a chicken function, in fact it will bring more space for IFTTT. One of the interesting things about IFTTT's iOS location channel is the combination of smart hardware. For example, by setting a geographic range, users can automatically light Philips's hub intelligent lighting system before they get home, or they can automatically turn off the lights after leaving the WeMo Light Switch wireless switch. In fact, not only Ifttt,foursquare and Twitter have also recently improved their products by combining geographical features. The new version of Foursquare can be used in conjunction with the user's geographic data to push it to the nearby consumer information, Twitter is also using the location of information testing near the Twitter function. At this stage, many applications are trying to call the user's location information to provide a relatively accurate service, and then through more accurate service to allow users and their applications to integrate more closely. Foursquare and Twitter are obviously trying to match the user's location data with more relevant information and create more profit points, ifttt though they don't directly borrow user location information toProfitability, but the effective combination of location information and smart hardware will help ifttt into the public eye. Admittedly IFTTT is still a niche product, and of course smart hardware is also on the scale of users. But the difference is that the smart hardware has been on the way into the popular vision, and IFTTT in this respect has not yet revealed signs. Clearly, IFTTT's trigger-like use of positional information is clearly needed by intelligent hardware devices, which have a real need for location sensitivity. If IFTTT can support more popular hardware in the future, it will help it to enter the public view, after all, it seems that it is difficult to complete this mission just wandering between Web services. Image source: IFTTT Official Blog