Angmoh

wood1208 said:

Apple rather make it 99% right than put in market with 90% right. Few months here or there does not make much difference for a product in new category. Apple is now so big that they can continue working on many products/projects simultaneously with different schedule to release. Most large enterprises do that. 

HomeKit/Matter/Thread is as per today very immature. Same for competitors. Google Home is more stable, but far less capable. I have at the moment Matter devices from 3 companies and all have issues with integration. Thread disconnects frequently and needs a Homepod Mini reset while at the same time other hubs are witched off, but at the same time you need the other hubs as the devices from other manufactures can only have their firmware updated through their own ecosystem. And on top of that, a lot of info is stored in Keychain, but there is no easy way to delete entries when things go wrong, which is frequently. An a lot of the Matter problems are caused by an immature Thread specification. The Thread 1.4 specification seems to fix a some of the most important problem but even this specification is still being revised. I frequently have to delete my home setup and start again from scratch.

I have a Nest Hub and the screen is effectively useless for anything else than being a clock. Aqara has a nice ecosystem with lots of bugs and no support other than an AI chatbot which spits out nonsense.

It's a big mess and it does not surprise me that more time is needed to get to a workable state.