Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard

Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by istillwritecode on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @03:40PM (#21829176)

I will no longer install apps on my phone to pair devices. The reason is that then everyone wants to link my phone number to the device and create an account. There is nothing that intrinsically says they have to, but companies cannot resist asking for a unique identifier that happens to be linked to everything else in your life. No thank you.

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Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @04:45PM (#21829793)

So who says you should need their app? It should be a published protocol, and then you use whatever app you want that speaks the protocol instead of some heinous dreck from the manufacturer.

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Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by tjoff on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @05:13PM (#21830022)

The part where they can't resist?

So no, there will not be a published protocol.

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Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @05:57PM (#21830348)

Isn't the topic of the article that they are trying to create a standard?

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Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by tjoff on Thursday December 19, 2019 @02:08AM (#21832684)

Isn't the topic about amazon, apple and google?

Probably most toxic companies on earth? Yeah, I'm sure it will be a wonder of openness.

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