Apple and LG, The House For Everyone Else, Agent Standards and Amazon
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Apple leaning into home integration with partners while Amazon talks agent standards points to a coming fight over who orchestrates the household graph. If you build consumer hardware or services, assume you’ll need to plug into at least two ecosystems and design for shared control, not ownership.
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