There are standards that are being worked on.
My criteria is: all the logic must be contained within my home, the devices must adhere to some open standard, they must be repairable and modifiable to some degree.
My criteria is: all the logic must be contained within my home, the devices must adhere to some open standard, they must be repairable and modifiable to some degree.
The idea that we're deliberately bricking useful technology devices because of lawyers is abhorrent. Realistically, their owners are probably then dumping them in many cases rather than sending them for any useful form of recycling, which is hugely wasteful. You'd think with the increasing awareness of issues like environmental protection and right to repair, we'd have been more enlightened by now.
The hub manufacturers all want to lock people into a proprietary garden, even if they're using open protocols, so they can sell accessories and "Certified for X" marks.
The only thing that would really push adoption would be a killer paid service that ran on top of one of the open platforms.
Expect after 10 years everyone will be fed up with sunsetting and interoperability issues that standards-compliance will be a product feature.
But then again it took 20 years + the EU to nudge the market towards USB connector chargers?