Podcast #1052: Will Matter Fix the Smart Home?

This week we discuss how matter will fix the smart home. Well it won’t fix the smart home completely but it will make adding new devices faster. Pulse we have an abbreviated email and news segment since one of us went to Alaska.

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• Classic Japanese audio brand Onkyo files for bankruptcy
• Hisense announces its own Fire TV, starting at $530 

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Google says Matter Still Set to Fix the Biggest Smart Home Frustrations

In early 2019, Michele Turner sat down for dinner with her colleague Grant Erickson. Joining them at the restaurant in Silicon Valley’s Woodside were two of their counterparts from Amazon and two from Apple. Turner and Erickson both worked for Google. The hosts of this dinner party were Tobin Richardson and John Osborne from the Zigbee Alliance. The aim of the evening was simple: fix the smart home. Full article here…

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