Is matter dead?

[orange-assistant]

@kidjake28

thought matter was the evolution of all smart devices? Has this been abandoned?

Well, depends of your personal choice. If you prefer ownership, full local control and sustainability matter devices are probably not your first, second or third choice

@WallyR

vendors have just realized that Matter is an open standard and they can therefore not lock users in ecosystem with Matter as with their own WiFi protocol.

This is wrong. Matter does allow vendor lock ins and walled gardens

Home Assistant officially Matters

Is is not the only shortcoming (contacting apple/google cloud and tell them about the existence of your device) Matter certified devices seem to allow to put functions into a walled garden/ecosystem (for example only accessible via vendor hub/bridge/app/platform/cloud) and to expose only basic functions (like on/off) via matter It was supposed to make things better but matter at this point does not allow full ownership and depending on the device only limi…