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Re:HomeKit by jasonpbecker on Monday June 02, 2014 @04:48PM (#7836267)
Many are bitter about that, myself included. But it was an intellectual property issue, out of Apple's control.[0]

[0]: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-20236114

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Re:HomeKit by judk on Monday June 02, 2014 @11:22PM (#7837970)
A patent (troll, btw) doesn't stop Apple from letting other clients connect to the network. Those clients could decide if they want to deal with the risk of infringement judgments.

And Apple could have chosen to use one of many existing alternative session initiation algorithms.

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