Is the Matter Smart Home Initiative Finally Happening?

While watching the live stream of last week’s formal announcement of the Matter smart home initiative, I couldn’t resist recalling Samuel Becket’s classic existentialist play, “Waiting for Godot,” where two characters participate in several discussions and encounters while awaiting Godot, a proxy for God, who never arrives.

After all, the Matter initiative was made public in December 2019, almost three years ago, by the…