Is Matter actually going to be a revolution for the (Apple) smart home?Matter promises cross-platform interoperability, but it's more complicated than it appears.
The smart home has come a long way — from a movie fantasy to a fairly mundane reality for a lot of regular folks in recent years. However, even though smart home devices have certainly become a lot more affordable and increasingly popular over the last decade, the process of getting set up with a smart home is still a lot more complex than it needs to be.
The main problem today is that there isn't just one way to do a smart home with the major platform owners — namely Apple, Amazon, and Google — all having different ideas about how a smart home should function. These brands have different walled gardens for smart devices to operate in and they don't speak to each other, meaning that buying decisions can be overly complicated for shoppers, while end-users get locked into a particular brand's ecosystem.
The upcoming Matter standard appears to be poised to be the next step in the evoluti...
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Is Matter actually going to be a revolution for the (Apple) smart home?
