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AppleInsider said:

..., and since they support Matter, both can work with Apple HomeKit.

I was super excited until I noticed "both can" in the first sentence, which is not what the article title implies.  I still have a first gen Nest, but I've always wanted HomeKit support.  Looks like I'll have to wait till these are out and reviewed by HomeKit enthusiasts to get a good picture of how comprehensive any support is.  Hopefully AI will get an early unit and provide its own review, including comparisons to the current Ecobee and any other prominent HK thermostat.  Last I checked there weren't that many notable alternatives though.

jvm156 said:

are people eating their watch bands or something? Jesus, like we haven't used plastics and rubbers for our entire lives

There are a lot of parallels, where we used something for years, only for the public to learn that the industry has known for some time that the <insert_material> was hazardous and resulted in long-term health impacts.  Your comment may have been tongue-in-cheek, but there are anti-regulation folk that constantly espouse the virtues of businesses self-regulating, and yet industry after industry fail us time and again.  Nobody wants to admit they are the problem, want to fight with their shareholders to do the right thing, or literally cut their own future paychecks by taking an alternative path.  Regulations are there to curb the worst tendencies of human nature writ large.

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