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Report: ‘Matter’ Standard Has ‘Undeniable Momentum’
“Matter was the buzzword throughout CES 2023 this year, with most companies even remotely connected to the smart home loudly discussing their Matter plans.”
The new smart home standard was featured in several keynotes and displayed prominently in smart home device makers’ booths as well as in Google, Amazon, and Samsung’s big, showy displays. More importantly, dozens of companies and manufacturers announced specific plans. Several companies said they would update entire product lines, while others announced new ones, sometimes with actual dates and prices. And Matter controllers have become a major thing, with at least four brand-new ones debuting at CES. Interestingly, nearly all of them have a dual or triple function, helping banish the specter of seemingly pointless white hubs stuck in your router closet….
Matter works over the protocols Thread, Wi-Fi, and ethernet and has been jointly developed by Apple, Google, Samsung, Amazon, and pretty much every other smart home brand you can name, big or small. If a device supports Matter, it will work locally with Amazon Alexa, Samsung SmartThings, Apple Home, Google Home, and any other smart home platform that supports Matter. It will also be controllable by any of the four voice assistants….
The big four have turned on Matter support on their platforms, but Amazon’s approach has been piecemeal, and aside from Apple, nobody supports onboarding devices to Matter on iOS yet.
However, that is shifting: at CES, Amazon announced a full rollout by spring, and Samsung’s Jaeyeon Jung told The Verge that Matter support is coming to its iOS app this month. There’s still no news on Matter support in Google Home’s iOS app. Then there’s the whole competing Thread network issue, although that sounds like it will be resolved sooner rather than later….
The Matter device drought should be over soon — although, judging by most of these ship dates, not until at least the second half of 2023.
“It’s also likely we’ll see dedicated bridges coming out that can bring Z-Wave and other products with proprietary protocols into Matter….”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Stock Watch: Will Boeing (BA) regain the lost momentum in 2023?
The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) has been mired in problems for some time, raising speculation that the aircraft maker has reached an inflection point. After poor passenger traffic and mounting […]
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Tinder is losing some momentum and Gen Z could be why
The biggest dating app in the world is losing some ground, at least partially due to the habits of young folks.
That’s one of the main conclusions to be drawn from a Friday Financial Times report. The British economic newspaper reported that Tinder downloads dropped 5 percent in 2021, while competitors like Bumble maintained growth in the same area, per market research conducted by the app data firm data.ai. Tinder CEO Gary Swidler told FT that new user sign-ups “have not returned to pre-pandemic levels.”
While there’s no hard demographic data regarding user ages to draw from, FT’s reporting suggested that Gen Z’s falling interest in Tinder could be to blame for the app’s slow fall from grace. It still had tens of millions more downloads than second-place Bumble last year, but one of those apps is losing steam while the other is gaining it. Tinder’s former CEO Renate Nyborg left the company just a few weeks ago.
Swidler told FT that “a lot of older people” use the app and that attracting younger users would be key to rebounding.
Flailing attempts at innovation to attract new users haven’t helped matters, either. Around the time Nyborg left, Tinder postponed plans to offer an in-app “Tinder Coins” currency and scaled down its efforts at creating dating spaces in the metaverse. Perhaps Gen Z isn’t particularly enticed by the notion of dating with a VR headset on.
While Tinder is still quite popular, it stands to reason that eventually it would lose some momentum, as all trendy apps eventually do. It’s been around for a decade and as the internet becomes the domain of a younger generation with different expectations and standards, it makes sense that young people would look elsewhere to make connections with each other.
As for those of us old enough to remember when Tinder was new, we’ll just go feel incredibly old in the corner. Don’t mind us.
“It doesn’t surprise me, but I’m still pretty upset” – MultiVersus modders lose momentum after DMCA strikes
The MultiVersus hype is still strong, moving on from its rapturous release a few weeks ago. The game has a lot to offer for fans of the ridiculous collection of IP under the Warner Bros umbrella, and with news of more characters on the horizon, it looks like they’ll have more to look forward to. Even then, for a significant portion of the playerbase, the game is ripe for more. These creatives, artists, and memsters make up the MultiVersus Modding community.
However, the future of this community and all the momentum it gained due to a mix of the popularity of the platform fighter and the appeal of what they were creating is uncertain. This comes thanks to a rise in copyright strikes on published video content featuring mods, the main avenue creatives use to show off their modded works.
One such modder, who goes by JtheDuelist online, began creating mods around four years ago, where they created skins for Monster Hunter World, afterwards moving onto Guilty Gear: Strive and Final Fantasy 14 after cutting their teeth. They first got into MultiVersus after receiving a code for the alpha test prior to launch, and began their modding projects for the title after coming across others on modding website Gamebanana.