THE SMART HOME DREAM
Peering through the mist, we’re always looking for signs of unity in the smart home world. If the fractured smart home landscape could unite itself as a compatible whole, without the need to add rickety bridges to join together its many islands, that would be a good thing. It would mean a wider choice of hardware, stronger platform understanding, widespread compatibility, and (probably) an easier point of entry. One app could, as Apple’s Home app tries to do, manage every smart device in your home — and you could choose the app you wanted to use.
Pie in the sky stuff, right? The entire history of computing is one of rival platforms battling it
