JonInAtl

In the long run, I believe that Apple and HomeKit have lost the battle in home automation.

Like VHS vs Betamax- while Beta was a superior product offering, it lost to VHS due to VHS starting out making two smart moves.
1. A 2 hour movie would fit on a VHS tape, initially Beta held less.
2. Onerous licensing to use the Beta format.

There are parallels here-
The Alexa (VHS) apis are more open than HomeKit's (Beta) which has kickstarted more manufacturers to offer Alexa compatible products than HomeKit.
More competition means better prices and more features to differentiate one product from another.

My home is filled with IOT devices, all of which connect directly to my mesh network without hubs, and are controllable by either apps or Alexa integration.
I held off a long time waiting for HomeKit compatible equipment but even today my choices are limited.
In the end I went the VHS route, choice won the day.

After a lot of research, I went with the Ubiquiti Amplifi Mesh set when it came time to replace my AirPorts.
Dead simple to set up and assign "profiles" to each device based on usage and anticipated data flow (ie: Streaming device, Gaming Computer, etc).
No issues so far.

There are no "journalists" anymore.
Not in news, not in tech, nowhere.
The only thing we get now are stories copied from one another, maybe re-worded slightly to avoid infringement, if that.
We also get "stories" that should be labeled opinion pieces. How often do you come across a story without the author's opinion included (sometimes with subtlety, often not).

When I was going to college, a friend told me he was going to journalism school to be a news reporter. When I asked him why he told me "to help make the world a better place".
That is not the purpose of reporting.
Do the research and give me the facts of the case. Nothing more, nothing less.