Most Zigbee devices are locked into working with proprietary gateways to the cloud. The last leg of connection being not-wifi doesn’t change that.
Matter seems like a step in a somewhat good direction for establishing open standards so devices from different vendors can be combined and more importantly, controlled from a hub of user’s choice.
Last thing I bought from them was Mass Effect (only the first one) circa 2008 I think.
“Once again, the conservative, sandwich heavy portfolio pays off for the hungry investor!”
Not with that attitude. When I dm id accept some uhm-ing, erm-ing fumbling players as buttery smooth talkers if they have the rolls.
OK so what’s the downside?
Bad for them. Fewer ai buttons shoved to my face, higher availability of GPUs, those ain’t bad for me.
Your phone takes over your car screen as a second display, so you have decent and up-to-date navigation apps like gmaps or waze, with instant alerts etc, instead of those garbage GPS navigation devices.
Piracy is typically my last resort. It means it’s already unavailable under acceptable conditions.