Enlarge / The Matter standard’s illustration of how the standard should align a home and all its smart devices.CSA
Matter, as a smart home standard, would make everything about owning a smart home better. Devices could be set up with any phone, for either remote or local control, put onto any major platform (like Alexa, Google, or HomeKit) or combinations of them, and avoid being orphaned if their device maker goes out of business. Less fragmentation, more security, fewer junked devices: win, win, win.
Matter, as it exists in late 2023, more than a year after its 1.0 specification was
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