This looks like an interesting agreement. E2EE messaging anyone? There is more of course, but I'm especially excited regarding this one.

Probably not... This is really taking a long time to be adopted. It's not an incremental thing at all, this doesn't help.

Interesting piece, shows quite well how new technologies get in the home and then slowly expand. In the case of the Internet, it was indeed literally in a corner of the home before slowly being woven in our lives.

Are we surprised it's mostly a PR stunt? Not at all. Of course, I agree a lot with the conclusion: we can't trust any claim from those companies. They try to present themselves as labs but mostly try to disguise marketing as research...