Why Apple, Amazon and Google Are Uniting on Smart-Home Tech: Matter Explained

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Why Apple, Amazon and Google Are Uniting on Smart-Home Tech: Matter Explained
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Matter aims to turn the smart-home dream into reality. One thing it has going for it: backing from Apple, Amazon, Google and Samsung.

If you think about smart-home gadgets at all, you probably think about energy-saving thermostats or lights you control with an app. Most people don’t worry about how they work, let alone how they might work together.

Some of tech’s biggest players— Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc . ’s Google, Amazon . com Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co . —have established smart-home platforms, so your iPhone can turn off the lights or Alexa can change the thermostat without too much extra setup. But that still means shoppers must check if new products work with the tech they already have at home.

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