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\u201cWe’re doing some outdoor products, and now we use Wi-Fi,\u201d he explained. \u201cBut in an ideal world, these should be Thread products, because it has much better range, and also it’s low power.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chu hasn\u2019t given up on Thread, though, and said testing version 1.4 is going well. The latest version has made it simpler for devices to work in a unified, brand-agnostic, mesh network, regardless of the software or hardware ecosystem being used. It has also streamlined cloud access and simplified device setup, ultimately helping to make Matter more robust, scalable, and user-friendly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that Matter and Thread has had a lot of negativity in the past few years, but it’s time for the consumers to give it another try,\u201d says Chu. \u201cIt’s gotten much better. A lot of people in the industry have been working very, very hard to get it to the point that it’s at today.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s an area of improvement that Richardson is also keen to highlight. \u201cThread is an important, foundational technology of Matter,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are closely aligned with the Thread Group and continue to look for ways to improve the Thread experience within Matter and the use cases that it enables.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thread took most of the early heat when Matter started stumbling, but it wasn\u2019t the only problem. Dev headaches, slow rollout, and a lack of compatible devices have all played a part.<\/p>\n
For an emerging standard, this is not unusual. But when the likes of Google, Apple, Amazon, and Samsung team up, it becomes a much bigger story.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe started this with a lot of fanfare, and usually standards don\u2019t. They sort of start off in a corner, with maybe a couple of super nerdy articles about it, and then, two years later, something shows up when companies start rolling it out.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the take of Daniel Moneta, chair of the Matter Marketing and Product Subgroup at the CSA. Moneta has also spent the past few years working with Samsung SmartThings in a product and marketing role, giving him plenty of irons in the Matter fire.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do think there were a lot of expectations, that maybe we set, but maybe people just had, in terms of things like how quickly it was going to be done, how fast products were going to come out, which problems Matter was going to solve and which ones it wasn\u2019t,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Moneta believes many criticisms of Matter stem from its tech-fluent early adopters already being obsessive about the details. Speaking as a self-titled \u201cnerdy enthusiast,\u201d he understands.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re very interested in the technical nuance \u2026 in looking at things like compatibility matrices. The smart home has historically been for that enthusiast in the home and, almost by definition, a group of people who have greater expectations, want more flexibility, and also maybe want it to do things beyond necessarily what it was built for.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not saying Matter wasn’t made for that audience, because I think it’s fantastic for that audience,\u201d he continues. \u201cBut Matter was also designed for the Ikea buyer or the Samsung TV buyer. The one that goes, \u2018I have a Matter hub in this TV I just bought. Maybe I should buy some light bulbs.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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