Apple can save the smart home dream

Smart home tech has become more hassle than it’s worth.

Rather than making life unequivocally simpler, you can often spend more time repeating voice commands, dealing with connectivity issues, fiddling with different apps and working too hard to overcome incompatibility issues.

It was supposed to bring us closer to a sci-fi-like utopia, where light switches look as out of place as Donald Trump in a presidential election. Instead, it’s complicated, it’s convoluted and, with so many competing standards, a minefield for every day consumers...

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