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Matter 1.4 tries to set the smart home standard back on track (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

Don't see the point of this standard which runs over an inferior type of networking

Inferior how? Matter is not comparable to Z-Wave. Z-Wave is a mesh network, Matter is just a standard which would allow Alexa, Siri, Google, etc. to control the same devices. To allow Z-Wave like functionality, Matter is able to work on top of Thread, which is in fact superior to Z-Wave.

is brought to us by the companies that created the interoperability problem in the first place

Of course. You don’t want to be the company known for refusing to participate in an open standard, even if you secretly don’t want it to succeed. Anyways, there’s no reason for companies to not want an open standard for controlling smart devices, since it literally helps everyone support more devices for basically no effort once you add support for Matter.