Ask HN: Why is the state of “smart home” devices still so dire?

Reading through the comment section on “I’m never investing in Google’s smart home ecosystem again” (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35849060) made me realize: Is there no company smaller than Google or Amazon or Apple willing or able to make a better smart home device? Especially now with AI solving the language-proficiency problem in talking to these devices, it seems like the rest of the […]