Robots are fun, but we'd rather have a smart home that actually works.
Like the Astro home robot, these ideas simply don't live in the real world. It's taken theover 25 years to get to the point where they're finally mature enough to live in the mainstream. And yet robot vacs are one of many types of products that aren't supported by the Matter 1.0 standard, leaving many buyers in a quandary about how to future-proof their smart home.
To be fair to Amazon, fellow tech giants like Google and Apple are as much to blame for the glacial progress of Matter's rollout. For example, the Google Home iOS app is only just getting the ability to let you set up Matter devices from iOS 16.5, something that was previously only possible on Android.
But it's going to be another long wait before we can set up our smart home without having to worry about what a Thread border router is or whether something has the Matter logo. Currently, your best bet for guaranteed Matter support is still the humble smart plug. In the meantime, talk of a next-gen Amazon Astro robot with ChatGPT-style powers is more annoying than it is exciting. We'd rather see Amazon put all of its generative AI eggs into a modern version of Alexa, but its voice assistant department was apparently theThat smarter reincarnation of Alexa may still come, even if it's seemingly a lower priority than a
. But for the messy smart home, the next version of Matter is way more important than another smart home pipe dream, like Amazon's privacy-invading robots.Sign up to receive daily breaking news, reviews, opinion, analysis, deals and more from the world of tech.Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors
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